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Developments in gene-editing technology raise new ethical questions

By [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], KCBS Radio | 11.19.2025

This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

U.S. Federal

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

By Emily Glazer, Katherine Long, Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2025

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Genetic Selection

Who Gets to Procreate and Parent? A Black Feminist Critique of the Pronatalist Agenda

By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

U.S. Federal

Does One Size Fit All?

By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

Society

The Eugenics Legacy of the Nobelist Who Fathered IVF

By Osagie K. Obasagie, Scientific American | 10.04.2013

Robert G. Edwards might not be a household name, but the innovation he pioneered along with Patrick Steptoe certainly is...

Assisted Reproduction

Glowing plant project on Kickstarter sparks debate about regulation of DNA modification

By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 10.03.2013

Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three young entrepreneurs are tinkering with...

Genomics

23andMe's Designer Baby Patent is 'a Serious Mistake,' Critics Charge

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 10.03.2013
What’s even more repulsive than the idea of using DNA tests to help people create a designer babies? Getting a...
Assisted Reproduction

23andMe's 'Build-a-Baby' Patent Criticised

By BBC, BBC News [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.03.2013

 

A US patent for a database that uses DNA testing to tell prospective parents which traits their future offspring...

U.S. Federal

Google vs. Death? Really?

By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.03.2013

Has Google gone right off the deep end? It's common for techies to be infatuated with transhumanism and other far-out...

Media Coverage

Dangerous Work

By Editorial, Nature | 10.02.2013
Intelligence tests were first devised in the early twentieth century as a way to identify children who needed extra help...
Biopolitics

Genetic Testing to be Easier Under Obamacare

By Veronica Linares, UPI.com | 10.02.2013
Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began Tuesday and in the legislation's all-inclusive policy programs are a variety of...
Genomics

Feds Looks at Plan to Collect DNA from Suspects upon Arrest

By Kim Mackrael, The Globe and Mail | 10.02.2013
The federal government is considering a move to collect DNA samples from suspects upon arrest for certain crimes, a significant...
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