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
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Sex selection leads to dangerous gender imbalance; new programme to tackle root causes

By United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Population Fund | 03.15.2017

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Civil Society
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Patients Lose Sight After Stem Cells Are Injected Into Their Eyes

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 03.15.2017

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Disability Rights
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The Crazy Plan to Restore a Woman's Fertility—and Defy the Limits of Nature

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 03.15.2017

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Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights
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Engineering Consensus in the Development of Genome Editing Policy

By Katherine Drabiak, The Hastings Center | 03.14.2017

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Bioethics
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Can You Engineer Social Change?

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genome Magazine | 03.13.2017

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Biotech & Pharma
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Vermont’s eugenics history demands public reckoning

By Steve May, VT Digger | 03.13.2017

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U.S. States
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This company wants to analyze your saliva — to try to predict when you’ll die

By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 03.13.2017

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Biotech & Pharma
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House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 03.10.2017

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U.S. Federal