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Technologies
Despite the appearance of agreement, scientists are not of the same mind about the ethics and governance of human germline...
The biggest biopolitical news of the year was also the most significant, as is not always the case. Despite the...
Leaders in the scientific community are urgently seeking to set international standards for producing genetically modified humans. They are reacting...
Danielle Lloyd, a former Miss Great Britain and celebrity mother of four boys, wants to guarantee that her next baby...
Policies
The biggest biopolitical news of the year was also the most significant, as is not always the case. Despite the...
The news of the passing of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016 on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha prompts us to...
California is being sued over its DNA collection practices, and the only thing that’s surprising is how long it took....
Three of the most influential scientific organizations in the world are calling for an urgent international effort to prevent scientists...
Society
The gene-editing scandal that made headlines in late November, with researcher He Jiankui claiming to have created twin girls...
The biggest biopolitical news of the year was also the most significant, as is not always the case. Despite the...
Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of the past year, in chronological order....
TOKYO -- The Japanese Society for Hygiene, which was active in promoting eugenic policies under the now-defunct eugenic protection law,...
Perspectives
The biggest biopolitical news of the year was also the most significant, as is not always the case. Despite the...
Amid the barrage of racist, anti-immigrant, and other attacks launched by President Trump and his administration in recent...
In Burkina Faso, the government is considering the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to eradicate malaria. In Nantucket, Mass., officials...
The Trump administration’s proposed scheme to redefine sex as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth” is not...