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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

Man Pleads Guilty in Stem Cell Scheme

By Mike Glenn, The Houston Chronicle | 07.31.2013
Mike Martin needed a medical miracle.

Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the Houston man...
Biotech & Pharma

Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | 07.31.2013
Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences...
Genomics

Japan to Start Stem-Cell Study on Humans

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.30.2013
On 1 August, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, will start recruiting patients for the...
Biotech & Pharma

Egg Donors Create Support Group for Women and Push for More Safety Data

By Raquel Cool, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.30.2013

I recently decided to retire as an egg donor.

This choice is clearly right for me, and although I speak...

Bioethics

Russian-Speakers who Want to Make Aliya Could Need DNA Test

By Asher Zeiger, The Times of Israel | 07.29.2013

A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testing...

Bioethics

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Blessing? Curse? Both?

By Eleanor J Bader, Truthout | 07.28.2013
The 11-year-old Calabasas, California, business is called Planet Hospital. Billing itself as a "medical tourism" company, its website informs...
Bioethics

Is Eugenics Ever Okay?

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 07.26.2013
A flurry of eugenics-related news over the last couple of weeks demonstrates that we have to stop considering eugenics a...
Genetic Selection

In India, a Rise in Surrogate Births for West

By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post | 07.26.2013

NEW DELHI — When 24-year-old Komal Kapoor handed over the twins she had just borne to a visiting American couple...

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