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

How medicine is advancing beyond race

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 07.08.2011

No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup.

That's why, as technology improves...

Genomics

How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.07.2011
When Juliet Jacobs found out she had lung cancer, she was terrified, but realized that her hope lay in getting...
Genomics

DNA study has details from 100,000 Kaiser patients

By Lynn La, Sacramento Bee | 07.06.2011

By itself, a glob of spit at the bottom of a cup doesn't sound remarkable.

But when you have globs...

Genomics

Programming a Fetus for a Healthier Life

By Shirley S. Wang, Wall Street Journal | 07.05.2011

Early intervention is among the most effective ways to reduce the risk of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes, scientists...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Researchers Link Deaths to Social Ills

By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times | 07.04.2011
Poverty is often cited as contributing to poor health. Now, in an unusual approach, researchers have calculated how many people...
Bioethics

High doses of IVF drugs may cause harm to eggs

By Sarah Boseley, The Guardian (UK) | 07.04.2011
High doses of drugs used to stimulate the ovaries of older women undergoing fertility treatment may be causing chromosomal abnormalities...
Assisted Reproduction

Assisted Reproductive Technologies in an Inquiry-based Classroom

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor, Biopolitical Times | 07.02.2011

Since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the mainstream English-language press around the world has valorized IVF doctors and...

Technologies

Betting That Biotech Will Bring the FDA to Heel? Don’t Count On It

By Luke Timmerman, Xconomy | 06.30.2011
When Minnesota Democrat Al Franken and Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown line up on the same side of an issue, my...
Patents & Other IP