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

Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20

By Tony Dutra, Bloomberg BNA | 02.02.2012
Petitioners challenging the patent eligibility of isolated DNA filed a reply brief Jan. 20, rejecting the respondent patent owner's call...
Biotech & Pharma

Informed Consent on Trial

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 01.30.2012

BRUSSELS- Informing clinical-trial participants of the risks they face is a cornerstone of modern medical research, and it is enshrined...

Bioethics

Informed Consent on Trial

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 01.30.2012

BRUSSELS- Informing clinical-trial participants of the risks they face is a cornerstone of modern medical research, and it is enshrined...

Bioethics

Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions In Vitro Practices

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post | 01.29.2012

LUTZ, Fla. — As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is...

Stem Cells

Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions In Vitro Practices

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post | 01.29.2012

LUTZ, Fla. — As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is...

Stem Cells

How a Genetically Engineered Super-Virus Spread – Through the Media

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 01.26.2012
In mid-September last year at  the fourth annual European Scientific Working group on Influenza meeting in Malta, Ron Fouchier of...
Technologies

Sterilized by North Carolina, She Felt Raped Once More

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times | 01.25.2012

Reporting from Raleigh, N.C.— Elaine Riddick was a confused and frightened 14-year-old. She was poor and black, the daughter of...

Eugenics

With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks

By Cornelia Dean, New York Times | 01.25.2012
Tiny substances called nanomaterials have moved into the marketplace over the last decade, in products as varied as cosmetics, clothing...
Environmentalism