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

Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes Investigation

By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes | 01.08.2012
Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a...
Disability Rights

Gov. Cuomo Plan Pushes DNA Samples from All People Convicted of a Crime in New York

By Glenn Blain, New York Daily News | 01.08.2012
ALBANY — Even convicted fare beaters would have to give a DNA sample to cops under a plan being pushed...
Racial Justice

Gov. Cuomo Plan Pushes DNA Samples from All People Convicted of a Crime in New York

By Glenn Blain, New York Daily News | 01.08.2012
ALBANY — Even convicted fare beaters would have to give a DNA sample to cops under a plan being pushed...
Racial Justice

Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?

By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 01.07.2012
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries...
Genetic Selection

Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?

By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 01.07.2012
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries...
Genetic Selection

Chimeric Monkeys Born in Stem Cell Study

By Dan Vergano, USA Today | 01.05.2012
Biologists report the first monkey "chimeras", born with a mix of genes in their cells.

The monkeys were born...
Stem Cells

Chimeric Monkeys Born in Stem Cell Study

By Dan Vergano, USA Today | 01.05.2012
Biologists report the first monkey "chimeras", born with a mix of genes in their cells.

The monkeys were born...
Stem Cells

Older Mothers, Fertility Treatments Driving a Big Increase in Twin Births, New CDC Report Says

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press / The Washington Post | 01.04.2012

ATLANTA — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of...

Assisted Reproduction