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

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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 test tube rack is filled with test tubes. A gloved hand lifts one of the open test tubes, positioned to read the label.

Can the Law Enforcement's DNA Database Tell Police your Medical Information?

By Francie Diep, Pacific Standard | 06.12.2017

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Genomics
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A Controversial Study Is Tearing the CRISPR World Apart

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.12.2017

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Biotech & Pharma
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Was Loving v. Virginia Really About Love?

By Osagie Obasogie, The Atlantic | 06.12.2017

CGS-authored

Biopolitics
Hall displaying several Nobel Prize Laureates.

The “Nobel Prize Sperm Bank” Was Racist. It Also Helped Change the Fertility Industry

By Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine | 06.09.2017

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Bioethics
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FBI raids offices of lab that pays doctors to promote genetic tests

By Charles Piller, STAT | 06.08.2017

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U.S. Federal

CGS Speaks on Human Germline Editing in India

By Leah Lowthorp | 06.08.2017
Biopolitical Times
Society
A wall displays letters " ATCG" in various colors.

CRISPR DNA Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Off-Target Mutations

By Dave Roos, Seeker [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.06.2017

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Bioethics
Historical marker in Raleigh, North Carolina H116 which states, "Eugenics Board: State action led to the sterilization by choice or coercion of over 7,600 people, 1933-1973. Met after 1939 one block E."

North Carolina court upholds denial of eugenics compensation

By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press | 06.06.2017

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U.S. States