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

On Embryos and Spin

By George Estreich, Guest Contributor | 08.01.2017
Biopolitical Times
Society
A black mother holds two babies in her arms. the babies look curiously out the nearby window.

Will Healthcare Inequality Cause Genetic Diseases to Disproportionately Impact the Poor?

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.31.2017

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Genetic Selection

Whatever Happened to #CRISPRfacts?

By Leah Lowthorp | 07.31.2017
Biopolitical Times
Society
Three boxes of 23andMe kits stand upright in a line. Two of the boxes have been blurred, and one of them is centrally focused.

FDA gives DTC genetic tests a partial restart

By Pete Shanks, Medical Laboratory Observer | 07.25.2017

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Genomics
Surgical equipment is laid out on a tray

America's Long, Shameful History of Sterilizing Prisoners

By Zoë Beery, The Outline | 07.25.2017

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Biopolitics
In a dark background, a human finger touches the glowing screen from a smartphone.

A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution

By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 07.24.2017

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Bioethics
An African Americna male patient looks carefully at a needle injected by a white researcher.

Did a U.S. Surgeon General come up with the idea of the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

By William Bender, Philly News | 07.20.2017

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Biopolitics
A laboratory scientist's right arm is shown, using a multi-channel pipette.

The uncertain future of genetic testing

By Carrie Arnold, Mosaic Science | 07.18.2017

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Biotech & Pharma