News

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

From Suspects to the Spitterati: A collision of power, profit, and privacy

By Jessica Cussins | 06.27.2013
DNA is the ultimate big-data dream. It can shed light on our health, ancestry, and family members. It can be...
Technologies

Lieber Adoptieren

By Marcy Darnovsky, The European | 06.26.2013

Hitzige Diskussionen darüber, wie wir unser schnell wachsendes Wissen über Genetik nutzen könnten, begannen lange vor der „Entschlüsselung“ des menschlichen...

Other Countries

A Culture of Consent

By Editorial, Nature | 06.26.2013
Tissue is removed from a woman in hospital. A scientist grows the tissue into a cell line. The cell line...
Biotech & Pharma

How Innocent Man's DNA Was Found at Killing Scene

By Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.26.2013
When a San Jose man charged with murdering a Monte Sereno millionaire was suddenly freed last month, prosecutors acknowledged he...
Biotech & Pharma

First Clinical Trial With Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Grows Closer

By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.26.2013
A Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare panel has accepted a plan to carry out what would be the...
Biotech & Pharma

A New High-Tech, Grass-Roots Effort to Fight Breast Cancer

By Apoorva Mandavilli, Slate | 06.25.2013
By now you’ve probably heard that, thanks to the Supreme Court, no one, and certainly not Myriad Genetics, can patent...
Patents & Other IP

Supreme Court Strikes a Hard Blow to Tribal Sovereignty in Adoption Case

By Aura Bogado, The Nation | 06.25.2013
In a 5 to 4 decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) does not...
Biopolitics

Sterilized Transsexuals Sue Swedish government

By Ann Törnkvist, The Local | 06.24.2013
"Honestly, what the hell is the problem?" says Swedish actress Aleksa Lundberg about the Swedish prime minister's refusal to apologize...
Bioethics