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

Sydney Women Turn to US Dads for Sperm Donation

By Rosie Squires, The Sunday Telegraph | 01.01.2012
Local donations to IVF clinics have all but stopped since it became easier for children to track down their biological...
Assisted Reproduction

Health Insurance and ‘Genetic Discrimination’: Are Rules Needed?

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 01.01.2012
Brynne Stainsby grew up knowing she had a good chance of being diagnosed with Huntington’s disease one day.

Her father...
Genomics

Sydney Women Turn to US Dads for Sperm Donation

By Rosie Squires, The Sunday Telegraph | 01.01.2012
Local donations to IVF clinics have all but stopped since it became easier for children to track down their biological...
Assisted Reproduction

Health Insurance and ‘Genetic Discrimination’: Are Rules Needed?

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 01.01.2012
Brynne Stainsby grew up knowing she had a good chance of being diagnosed with Huntington’s disease one day.

Her father...
Genomics

The Daughter’s Return

By The Economist, The Economist | 12.31.2011

A glimmer of hope in the sad tale of sex-selective abortion in India

THE march of sex-selective abortion in Asia...

Other Countries

American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News Blog | 12.29.2011
An American university scientist was arrested on 27 December, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies.

The...
Stem Cells

American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News Blog | 12.29.2011
An American university scientist was arrested on 27 December, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies.

The...
Stem Cells

Cloning vs. Conservation

By John Rennie, Smart Planet | 12.20.2011
Suppose you knew the rain forests would be totally destroyed in 20 years, no matter what. But you also knew...
Environmentalism