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

Larry King: I Want To Be Frozen

By Katie McLaughlin, CNN | 12.02.2011
"I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back," Larry...
A "Post-Human" Future?

Larry King: I Want To Be Frozen

By Katie McLaughlin, CNN | 12.02.2011
"I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back," Larry...
A "Post-Human" Future?

A Conversation with Writer and Troublemaker Carl Elliott, Parts I & II

By Misha Angrist, PLOS Medicine/GenomeBoy | 12.02.2011

In 2009 I attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The keynote speaker was...

Bioethics

A Conversation with Writer and Troublemaker Carl Elliott, Parts I & II

By Misha Angrist, PLOS Medicine/GenomeBoy | 12.02.2011

In 2009 I attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The keynote speaker was...

Bioethics

Do Egg Donors Lie?

By Jenna Marotta, Jezebel | 12.01.2011
On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Do Egg Donors Lie?

By Jenna Marotta, Jezebel | 12.01.2011
On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Court Says Some Donors of Stem Cells Can Be Paid

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.01.2011

An appeals court says a law prohibiting payment for donated organs did not apply to stem cells extracted from circulating...

Biotech & Pharma

Court Says Some Donors of Stem Cells Can Be Paid

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.01.2011

An appeals court says a law prohibiting payment for donated organs did not apply to stem cells extracted from circulating...

Biotech & Pharma