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The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics

By Aubrey Clayton, Los Angeles Review of Books | 07.18.2024

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Image "Sir Francis Galton" by Spudgun67 from Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

IN 2013, A SERIES of ads about the dangers of teen pregnancy appeared on New York City subway trains. Sponsored by the city’s Human Resources Administration...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Dawn of the Silicon Valley Superbaby

By Julia Black and Margaux MacColl, The Information [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.19.2024

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When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they were ready to have children, she’d be willing to conceive using in vitro fertilization. Abraham had lost both his mother...

Genetic Selection

GATTACA on Screen in San Rafael with Katie Hasson

By Pete Shanks | 06.26.2024
Biopolitical Times

GATTACA was released in 1997, but — remarkably — is even more relevant now than it was then, as the...

Assisted Reproduction

The legacy of eugenics

By Sheila Kaplan, UC Berkeley School of Public Health | 06.20.2024

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Image by Gennie Stafford from Flickr

These days, it’s a rare scientist who would admit to working in eugenics.

The...

Human Genetic Modification

Biopolitical Times

Update on Polling about Human Biotechnologies

By Pete Shanks | 08.26.2024

It has been for years a truth universally acknowledged that heritable human genome editing – “designer baby” technology –  should...

Biopolitics

Recent Biopolitical News: Ethics, Guidelines, History, and Pure Fantasy

By Pete Shanks | 07.31.2024

It’s been a busy couple of months in biopolitics, with developments in the US, UK, China, Japan, and implicitly on...

Genomics

What Is Up With the FDA? What Comes Next?

By Pete Shanks | 07.18.2024

Image courtesy National Human Genome Research Institute

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to encourage effective medical...

Stem Cells

News

Vance’s ‘cat ladies’ remarks have dark historical legacy

By Jacob M. Apel, The Baltimore Sun | 08.16.2024

"J.D. Vance" by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC by S.A. 2.0

Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, has recently received widespread criticism for remarks during a 2021 television interview in which he said, “We are...

Society

Donald Trump Relies on Eugenics Concepts, UT Prof Argues in New Book

By Neha Kondaveeti, The Austin Chronicle | 08.16.2024

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“They’re poisoning the blood of our country”

“These are bad – these are animals, and we have to stop it”

“A lot of...

U.S. Federal

The Power and Potential of Gene Tuning

By Fyodor Urnov, Time | 08.12.2024

After a lifetime in the field of epigenetics, and nearly 20 years after my colleagues and I coined the term “genome editing,” I will be the first to admit that describing the “epigenome”—a marvelous biological process that guides...

Human Genetic Modification

China's ethics guidelines – A new era for human genome editing?

By Joy Zhang, Progress Educational Trust | 08.12.2024

What do China's new ethical guidlines tell us about the country's changing attitude to human genome editing? Professor Joy Zhang reads between the lines...

Recently, China's National Science and Technology Ethics Committee introduced a new set of ethics guidelines on...

Human Genetic Modification

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Reproduction and Family Formation: The State and the Market
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The 'Perfect' Baby?: The Dangers of Gene Editing in Assisted Reproduction