News

The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.

His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new...

Genetic Selection

Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals: Why We Shouldn’t Trust the Pronatalist Movement

By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump administration to help encourage women to have more children.

Besides falling short of ensuring that people have what they need...

Human Genetic Modification

We Don’t Know if the Babies Born From Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Will Still Develop Mitochondrial Disease

By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Assisted Reproduction

Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they?

By Brittany Luse, Liam McBain, and Neena Pathak, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.28.2025

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

Genetic Selection

Doctors in Uzbekistan Say Government Forcibly Sterilizing Women

By Joyce Hackel, The World | 04.12.2012
Journalist Natalia Antelava talks with Marco Werman about what she says is a secret program by the government of Uzbekistan...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Stricter Norms for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinics

By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 04.12.2012

JAIPUR: All clinics in India, involved in treating infertility through procedures like artificial insemination with husband's semen (AIH) or in-vitro...

Other Countries

NIH Unperturbed by New Way of Peering into Personal Genomic Data

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 04.10.2012
In a provocative paper published this week, researchers say they have figured out a way to link a person's DNA...
U.S. Federal

Texas Accused of Ignoring FDA on Stem Cell Rules

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 04.10.2012

Texas’ proposed adult stem cell regulations, up for approval this week, are under fire for circumventing the Food and Drug...

Stem Cells

GEN Poll Majority Favors Moratorium on Synthetic Bio Products

By GEN , Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 04.10.2012

A majority of respondents to a recent GEN poll would like to see a moratorium on synthetic biotechnology products pending...

Synthetic Biology

British Man 'Fathered 600 Children' at Own Fertility Clinic

By Rebecca Smith, Telegraph | 04.08.2012

Bertold Wiesner and his wife Mary Barton founded a fertility clinic in London in the 1940s and helped women conceive...

Assisted Reproduction

Scientists Rewrite Rules of Human Reproduction

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 04.07.2012
The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later...
Assisted Reproduction

Sperm: America's Most Renewable Resource?

By CBS This Morning, CBS This Morning | 04.05.2012

A new report in Time magazine reveals the U.S. is the world's top exporter of sperm.

But why? It's largely...

Technologies