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

Myriad Ruling Causes Confusion

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.18.2013
There was a party waiting for Elizabeth Chao when she arrived for work last week at Ambry Genetics, a medical-diagnostics...
Biopolitics

Public Invasion of Genetic Privacy For UK Royal Family?

By Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 06.17.2013
The Times newspaper has published a front-page story revealing that the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and his brother Prince...
Global Governance

Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.16.2013
Not so long ago, people who provided DNA in the course of research studies were told that their privacy was...
Global Governance

Testimony by Jennifer Schneider, MD to the California Senate Health Committee re AB 926

By Jennifer Schneider, MD | 06.16.2013

My name is Jennifer Schneider. I’m an Internal Medicine physician and the mother of a Stanford student egg donor.  I...

Human Cloning

Real-Life True Blood: Synthetic Blood Is Coming — And So Are a Host of Potential Complications

By Devon Maloney, Wired | 06.14.2013
Season 6 of HBO’s vampire drama True Blood premieres on Sunday night, presumably following up on last year’s cliffhanger where...
Other Countries

Self-Confessed Liar Publishes More Dubious Stem-Cell Work

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 06.14.2013
He’s back.

Last autumn, Hisashi Moriguchi stunned the world of stem-cell science by claiming he had become the first person...
Biotech & Pharma

After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court ruled that human genes could not be patented, several laboratories announced they, too, would...
Genomics

Compensation for Human Eggs Approved by Key California Senate Committee, But Not For CIRM Researchers

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.13.2013
Legislation that would permit women in California to be paid for their eggs for scientific research yesterday cleared a key...
Biopolitics