News

The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies

By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post | 09.03.2025

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

Policies

Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference

By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

^{“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0}

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

Bioethics

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...

Genetic Selection

Who decides the future of humanity? SA’s genome editing guidelines spark global concern

By Vuyile Madwantsi, Independent Online | 08.22.2025

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

Policies

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They Were Given IUDs as Children Without Their Consent. Now, They Want Compensation.

By Isabella Kwai, The New York Times | 10.03.2023

Dozens of Indigenous women and girls from Greenland have said that they had intrauterine devices inserted without their consent in...

Eugenics

F.D.A. Moves to Regulate Lab Tests That It Says Put Patients ‘at Risk’

By Christina Jewett, The New York Times | 09.29.2023

The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it was moving to close what has widely been viewed as...

U.S. Federal

Japanese scientists race to create human eggs and sperm in the lab

By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.28.2023

Katsuhiko Hayashi pulls a clear plastic dish from an incubator and slides it under a microscope.

"You really want to...

Assisted Reproduction

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Stop overselling GM on yield, warns plant breeding researcher

By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.26.2023

^{Photo by Shuken Nakamura on Unsplash}

A young researcher studying plant breeding for her PhD at Cornell University has just...

Patents & Other IP

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Myopic View of Xenotransplantation

By Franklin G. Miller, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 09.25.2023

The news media significantly influence public perceptions of medical innovation. How cutting- edge medical innovation is presented—what receives attention and...

Animal Biotechnologies