Society

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

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

Aggregated News

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

Aggregated News

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

Aggregated News

Prospective people are not any doctor’s patient, nor are they any future parent’s property to be made to order.
Animal Biotechnologies
Three test tubes nect to gloved hand

A Consumer DNA Testing Company’s Alarming New Marketing Pivot

By Elizabeth Joh, Slate | 03.29.2019

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Genomics

Malaysian carrying live human embryos detained at Indian airport

By Anna Maria Romero, The Independent | 03.21.2019

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Policies
Two pairs of scissors cutting a strand of DNA

What Is the World to Do About Gene-Editing?

By Stephen Buranyi, The New York Review of Books | 03.21.2019

Aggregated News

Human Genetic Modification

One Week Later: Reactions to the Proposed Moratorium on Human Germline Editing

By Katie Hasson | 03.20.2019
Biopolitical Times
Human Genetic Modification

Moratorium News Roundup: What Got Reported? What Didn't?

By Pete Shanks | 03.20.2019
Biopolitical Times
Human Genetic Modification
satellite image of Earth

WHO panel proposes new global registry for all CRISPR human experiments

By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.19.2019

Aggregated News

Human Genetic Modification
Woman with hands on computer

INTERVIEW: Inside Dr. Diane Tober’s Research on Egg Donors

By Raquel Cool, We Are Egg Donors | 03.18.2019

Aggregated News

Assisted Reproduction
Photo of He Jiankui in a blue collard shirt who experimented to make CRISPR'd twins who were delivered last November.

Did a Permissive Scientific Culture Encourage the ‘CRISPR babies’ experiment?

By Donna Dickenson, Marcy Darnovsky, Nature Biotechnology | 03.15.2019

CGS-authored

Genomics