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

Doctors Offer Fertility, Other Treatments as Contest Prizes

By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel | 11.04.2011

Attention patients: Bring the most Internet viewers to our Facebook page and win a free … pregnancy?

Doctors and medical...

Bioethics

Doctors Offer Fertility, Other Treatments as Contest Prizes

By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel | 11.04.2011

Attention patients: Bring the most Internet viewers to our Facebook page and win a free … pregnancy?

Doctors and medical...

Bioethics

Mengele in America

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 11.02.2011
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes...
Biotech & Pharma

Mengele in America

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 11.02.2011
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes...
Biotech & Pharma

Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 11.02.2011

Oregon Health & Science University's patent on a procedure to clone stem cells caps off a decade of work for...

Patents & Other IP

Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 11.02.2011

Oregon Health & Science University's patent on a procedure to clone stem cells caps off a decade of work for...

Patents & Other IP

Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis

By Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska and David Glovin, Bloomberg Markets Magazineine | 11.01.2011

Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite...

Human Rights

Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis

By Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska and David Glovin, Bloomberg Markets Magazineine | 11.01.2011

Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite...

Human Rights