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

Powerful Gene-Editing Tool Appears to Cause Off-Target Mutations in Human Cells

By Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Codex | 06.23.2013
In the past year a group of synthetic proteins called CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have generated great excitement in the...
Biotech & Pharma

Pioneering Icelandic Genetics Company Denied Approval for Data-Mining Plan

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 06.20.2013
deCODE Genetics, the company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has...
Other Countries

U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 06.20.2013
The Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes a claim about the absence...
U.S. Federal

Should Women Make a Profit on Donating Their Eggs For Research?

By Larry Mantle, KPCC | 06.20.2013

[To listen to the full radio segment, go here]

The amount of money a woman can receive for donating...

Bioethics

'More Rights, More Inclusion, Better Country': Argentina Approves IVF for All

By Alex Stern, The Huffington Post | 06.20.2013
This post was co-authored with Gamal Serour, M.D.

Earlier this month Argentina joined the list of countries that subsidize in...
Bioethics

New Study Tracks Emotional Health of 'Surrogate Kids'

By Linda Carroll, Today | 06.19.2013
Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered...
Civil Society

Japan to Relax Ban on Chimeric Embryo Experiments

By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.19.2013
TOKYO— A scientist pioneering research toward generating human organs in pigs has cleared one hurdle in gaining approval to continue...
Stem Cells

California Bill Poised to Lift Restrictions on Egg Donation

By Charlotte Schubert, Nature | 06.18.2013
California is set to pass a bill that would allow payments over and above 'direct expenses' to be made to...
Biopolitics