Publications

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Any coverage of heritable genome editing since 2018 has to include discussion of the reckless experiments of He Jiankui and...

Front page of the Natal Conference website

Last November, this blog published a piece with the title “Hipster Eugenics...

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How responsible are we for the supremacist legacies left behind by our...

Newsletter

Natalism and Hipster Eugenics | China’s quest for human genetic data

Designer babies from lab-produced gametes? | Ineffective altruism

Lessons from a cloning scandal | Lab-made gametes and eugenic futures

Video

View a recording of the February 25, 2021 event sponsored by the San Francisco Asian Art Museum: With film clips and discussion, this DEAI series workshop explores a dangerous idea that has threatened the American Dream from the beginning: the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to others and more deserving of fundamental rights.

On January 29, 2020, Marcy Darnovsky spoke to an audience of 600 in Santa Barbara at TEDxLagunaBlanca. Her talk was...

This episode of the Al Jazeera video series Start Here features an interview with CGS Program Director on Genetic Justice, Katie Hasson.

Talks and Testimonies

 

 

CGS Consultant Emily Galpern spoke at the Black Women for Wellness Reproductive Justice Conference in August 2023 about...

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When you send your saliva to 23andme, you can get all kinds of genetic information — but now that it's...

DNA Strain

Are designer babies going to become a reality in the near future?

On this episode Cormac speaks to former NASA...

Reports

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This comprehensive progress report critically evaluates the first year of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the agency running...

The Center for Genetics and Society met on January 2 with members of the new administration's transition team to discuss...