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
Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912

For Scientific Institutions, Racial Reconciliation Requires Reparations

By C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American | 06.12.2020

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Society
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A Selective Amnesia – Sterilizing The History Of Genetics

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 06.12.2020

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Genomics
Rufus von KleinSmid

USC removes name of Rufus von KleinSmid, a eugenics leader, from prominent building

By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

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Society

The gene delusion

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

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Genomics
Two scientists in a lab

Biomedical studies are including more female subjects (finally)

By Bethany Brookshire, Science News | 06.09.2020

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Bioethics

Seizing a Pap smear to catch a criminal? Ethical issues of forensic use of medical biobanks

By Nina de Groot, Journal of Medical Ethics blog | 06.09.2020

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Bioethics

Understanding our eugenic past to take steps towards scientific accountability

By Rori Rohlfs, Genes to Genomes | 06.08.2020

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Society

IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology

By Jay Peters, The Verge | 06.08.2020

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