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
Three small babies in their hospital beds with a nurse taking care of one of them.

Japanese man wins sole custody of 13 surrogacy children

By Daniel Hurst , The Guardian | 02.20.2018

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Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights
Wooden gavel

Iowa court upholds enforceability of surrogacy contracts

By Associated Press, Omaha World-Herald | 02.18.2018

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Human Rights
Basketball player, Stephen Curry, shooting

If You’re Gene Doping, Are Your Talents ‘Natural’?

By Thomas H. Murray, The Daily Beast | 02.18.2018

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Human Genetic Modification
Male and Female symbol

You Can Control Your Baby's Sex — If You Believe In Babydust

By Rebecca Gale, Refinery29 [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.16.2018

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Bioethics
A human oocyte is held by a pipette, and another pipette containing an immobilized sperm is inserted through

Gene Editing for Reproduction: "Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind"

Society
Three x-ray brain scans.

Gene-altering treatments are medicine’s best shot yet against Huntington’s disease

By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 02.15.2018

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Technologies
An undifferentiated cell being differentiated into different cells. A switch is used to symbolize the changes made that allow the cell to differentiate differently.

'Less Than a Drop in the Bucket' -- Dueling Perspectives on California's First Stem Cell Royalty Check

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.14.2018

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Policies
Buildings in Kiev, Ukraine

In search of surrogates, foreign couples descend on Ukraine

By Kevin Ponniah, BBC | 02.13.2018

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Other Countries