Society

U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA from Detained Immigrants

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

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The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin collecting genetic data on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities.
Genomics

A New Book Offers an Introduction to the Ethical Dimensions of Germline Gene Editing

By Adam Hayden, Science | 09.30.2019

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With Altered Inheritance, bioethicist Françoise Baylis has authored a vivid call to action that “aims to bridge the divides between theory, science, politics, and practice.”
Human Genetic Modification

It’s Past Time to Compensate Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization

By Emily Galpern | 09.25.2019
Biopolitical Times
Each passing year, more people die who would be eligible for reparations after involuntary sterilization in California.
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Dr. Stuart Newman: “It Seems to Me That We Are Headed for A Techno-Eugenic Future”

By Mohsen Abdelmoumen, American Herald Tribune | 09.05.2019

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Prospective people are not any doctor’s patient, nor are they any future parent’s property to be made to order.
Animal Biotechnologies
a close up of a 3-D landscape of the human genome

Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists

By Jedidiah Carlson, Brenna M. Henn, Dana R. Al-Hindi, and Sohini Ramachandran, Nature | 10.19.2022

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Society

Celebrating Loretta Ross

By Emily Galpern | 10.19.2022
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Civil Society
a newborn being laid down

Should preventing harmful heritable mutations from being passed on be publicly funded?

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 10.18.2022

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Genetic Selection

European Convention Continues to Ban Germline Editing

By Pete Shanks | 10.17.2022
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Policies
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Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel

By Nirit Sandman Eriksson, The Times of Israel | 10.14.2022

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Assisted Reproduction
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Are rats with human brain cells still just rats?

By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2022

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Bioethics
Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel

We, the People Did Next To Nothing

By John Kendall Hawkins, CounterPunch | 10.14.2022

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Other Countries
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The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence

By Adrienne Williams, Milagros Miceli, and Timnit Gebru, Noema | 10.13.2022

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Biopolitics