News

23andMe’s DNA database is up for sale. Who might want it, and what for?

By Anumita Kaur [cites CGS’ Katie Hasson], The Washington Post | 03.25.2025

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

Sunday’s announcement clears the way for a new...

Genomics

Center for Genetics and Society, et al. vs. Rob Bonta, et al.

By ACLU Northern California | 03.21.2025

In a long-standing lawsuit, the ACLU, on behalf of partner organizations and an individual taxpayer, is challenging the state of California for its retention of genetic samples and profiles from people arrested but never convicted of a felony.  

The complaint...

U.S. States

The couple who want to make America procreate again

By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

It's a...

Genetic Selection

Should We Use Gene Editing to Create Super Babies?

By Staff [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], The New York Times Upfront | 02.17.2025

A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...

Bioethics
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Who Shall and Shall Not Have a Place in the World?

By Lily Hu, Los Angeles Review of Books | 02.13.2025

IN MAY 1921, the organizers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics assured the public that its conference, to be...

Other Countries
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Accusations Of Egg-Harvesting Rock Georgian Surrogacy Industry

By Nino Tarkhnishvili, Radio Free Europ | 02.13.2025

When Na, a Thai woman, saw a Facebook advertisement promising work as a surrogate mother in Georgia, it seemed almost...

Policies
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

By Robin Fields, ProPublica | 02.12.2025

Vincent Gaynor remembers, almost to the minute, when he realized his part in birthing the breakthrough gene therapy Zolgensma had...

U.S. Federal
Darren Beattie, speaking

Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

By Gustaf Kilander, The Independent | 02.11.2025

"Darren Beattie speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona"
by...

Eugenics
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Easing restrictions: Swiss Federal Council announces a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act

By Alice Margaria and Florina Markwalder, BioNews | 02.10.2025

On 30 January 2025, the Swiss Federal Council announced plans for a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act (RMA)...

Policies
Asilomar State Beach photograph

Asilomar Déjà Vu?

By Tina Stevens and Stuart A. Newman, A Bigger Conversation | 02.06.2025

Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash

In June 1971, Robert Pollack, a young researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, phoned...

Human Genetic Modification
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Egg Donation: A Victory for Reproductive Justice or Another Handmaid’s Tale?

By Chantal Bittner, Bill of Health | 02.04.2025

One of the central topics of the election campaign was undoubtedly abortion—a key issue in the fight for reproductive justice...

Policies
a photo of a gloved hand handling a Petri dish in a laboratory

CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says

By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid, Reuters | 02.03.2025

Photo by Drew Hays on Unsplash

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers...

Bioethics