Technologies

Will Putin Prevent Rebrikov from Attempting Heritable Genome Editing?

By Pete Shanks | 10.08.2019

Biopolitical Times

The Russian molecular biologist who wants to edit the genomes of human embryos is getting impatient with authorities who won't yet let him go ahead.

Policies

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

Despite Calls for a Moratorium, More ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Expected Soon

By Emily Mullin, One Zero | 09.16.2019

Aggregated News

At least 10 babies have been born to apparently infertile women as a result of a controversial in vitro fertilization...

Assisted Reproduction

brown eggs in a basket with a pink piggy bank

I sold my eggs for an Ivy League education – but was it worth it?

By Ellie Houghtaling, The Guardian | 11.07.2021

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Bioethics

All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 11.04.2021

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Society

Becoming Without: Making Transgenic Mosquitoes and Disease Control in Brazil

By Luísa Reis-Castro, Duke University Press | 11.01.2021

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Animal Biotechnologies

Blue Instagram advertisement for Modern Fertility, reading "Want kids one day?"

Hounded by fertility ads on Instagram? Don't let them stress you out.

By Rachel Kraus, Mashable | 10.31.2021

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Society

test tubes of blood with purple and red stoppers in a yellow grid

How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 10.28.2021

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Animal Biotechnologies

Imagine CRISPR cures

By Fyodor D. Urnov, Molecular Therapy | 10.27.2021

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Stem Cells

Inside the lawsuit that ended US gene patenting

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 10.25.2021

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Policies

What Dune Reveals about Reproductive Control and Eugenics

By Andrew J. Mongue and Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein, Scientific American | 10.22.2021

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Society