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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...
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...
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times | 06.02.2011
The medical ethics controversy that erupted when Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets two years ago took a decisive turn...
By Rich Remsberg, NPR | 06.01.2011
The shadow selves of American history often don't leave much of a photographic record, but sometimes there are just a...
By Suthiwit Chayutworakan, Bangkok Post | 05.31.2011
Thailand repatriated five pregnant Vietnamese women and five babies yesterday after freeing them from a Taiwanese gang which forced them...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 05.31.2011
This story is part of an occasional series, "Making Babies: 21st Century Families."
As more women postpone motherhood into...
As more women postpone motherhood into...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 05.29.2011
Last week, Chicago Tribune reporter Monica Eng wrote about the latest chapter in the debate over genetically modified foods: their...
By Will Guzzardi, Washington Post | 05.26.2011
If Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs House Bill 3238, recently sent to his desk by the state legislature, it will...
By CBC News, CBC News [Canada] | 05.25.2011
Canada's civil liberties watchdog is calling on investigators in the Sonia Varaschin murder investigation to "immediately stop" voluntary DNA sampling...
By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 05.25.2011
Modern bioethics is grounded in four basic principles: respect for persons (i.e. autonomy), beneficence, nonmalificence and justice. In a recent...