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
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Mitochondrial replacement techniques, Mexico and the legal unknowns

By César Palacios-González, BioNews | 04.24.2017

Aggregated News

Media Coverage
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Who Owes the Henrietta Lacks Family?

By Hannah Giorgis, The Ringer | 04.24.2017

Aggregated News

Racial Justice

Who Knew Synthetic Biology Was So Hard?

By Pete Shanks | 04.22.2017
Biopolitical Times
Biotech & Pharma
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The U.S. Regulations for Biotechnology Are Woefully Out of Date

By Brooke Borel, Slate | 04.21.2017

Aggregated News

Synthetic Biology

23andWho? Questions Cloud Partial Relaunch

By Pete Shanks | 04.21.2017
Biopolitical Times
Genomics
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#MarginSci: The March for Science as a Microcosm of Liberal Racism

By J. Ama Mantey, The Root | 04.20.2017

Aggregated News

Biopolitics
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The next super weapon could be biological

By Peter Apps, Reuters | 04.20.2017

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Other Countries
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Should Californians give more money for stem cell research?

By Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Tribune [quotes Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.20.2017

CGS-authored

Stem Cells