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

Americans Prefer Sons To Daughters, Survey Finds

By Huffington Post, Huffington Post | 06.24.2011

What ever happened to parents-to-be saying, "We don't care whether it's a boy or a girl, as long as it's...

Assisted Reproduction

Victims of state's eugenics program win sympathy

By Regina Wang, Newsobserver.com | 06.23.2011
RALEIGH -- For more than 40 years, Charles Holt swallowed the shame and anger of being sterilized by the state...
Bioethics

Biotech firms want drug approval hastened

By Robert Weisman, Boston Globe | 06.22.2011
Biotechnology industry leaders want to speed up the process of bringing drugs to market by broadening the mission of the...
Biotech & Pharma

Investment banker chosen to head state stem cell agency

By Keith Darce, Sign On San Diego | 06.22.2011
A divided oversight committee of California’s $3 billion stem cell research institute selected Los Angeles investment banker and attorney Jonathan...
Fact Sheets

IVF still an all-comers affair in Nigeria

By Onche Odeh, Independent Online | 06.22.2011
The absence of a regulatory framework for fertility treatment in Nigeria has continually put a growing number of couples in...
Global Governance

Nadya Suleman doctor asks court to retain medical license

By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times | 06.21.2011

The Beverly Hills fertility doctor who helped Nadya Suleman give birth to octuplets is asking the Los Angeles County Superior...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look

By Patricia Cohen, New York Times | 06.19.2011

It was less than 20 years ago that the National Institutes of Health abruptly withdrew funds for a conference on...

Racial Justice

UK Drops DNA Tests For Refugees And Asylum Seekers

By NPR, National Public Radio | 06.17.2011

Britain has dropped a policy of using DNA tests to identify the nationality of African refugees and asylum seekers after...

Genomics