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

Fitness 2.0: It's Genes Versus Gym

By Fiona MacDonald, Sydney Morning Herald | 01.25.2012

Not every fitness regime will have the same impact on all types of bodies, but just how personal does a...

Genomics

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

Fitness 2.0: It's Genes Versus Gym

By Fiona MacDonald, Sydney Morning Herald | 01.25.2012

Not every fitness regime will have the same impact on all types of bodies, but just how personal does a...

Genomics

Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene

By Ayesha Ahmad, BioNews | 01.23.2012

Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene...

Patents & Other IP

Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene

By Ayesha Ahmad, BioNews | 01.23.2012

Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene...

Patents & Other IP

Non-Consenting Adults

By Harriet A. Washington, Slate | 01.22.2012

Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a...

Human Rights

Non-Consenting Adults

By Harriet A. Washington, Slate | 01.22.2012

Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a...

Human Rights