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

'Three-Person IVF' Technique Moves Closer

By BBC, BBC News | 01.19.2012

It replaces defective genetic material in the egg in order to eliminate rare mitochondrial diseases.

After the consultation into "three-person...

Assisted Reproduction

Canadian Doctor’s Suggestion to Delay Revealing Baby’s Sex Ignites Controversy over ‘Feticide’

By Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star | 01.16.2012

Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat...

Genetic Selection

Canadian Doctor’s Suggestion to Delay Revealing Baby’s Sex Ignites Controversy over ‘Feticide’

By Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star | 01.16.2012

Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat...

Genetic Selection

Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian [UK] | 01.14.2012
Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding...
Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian [UK] | 01.14.2012
Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding...
Synthetic Biology

Study Finds Doctors Shouldn’t Transfer 3 or More Embryos into Women Having IVF at Any Age

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press / Washington Post | 01.12.2012

LONDON — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better...
Assisted Reproduction

Study Finds Doctors Shouldn’t Transfer 3 or More Embryos into Women Having IVF at Any Age

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press / Washington Post | 01.12.2012

LONDON — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better...
Assisted Reproduction

Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program

By Kim Severson, New York Times | 01.11.2012

ATLANTA — The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North...
Racial Justice