Newsletter

October 2018

Human Gene Editing and Human Rights Webinar | Genetic Determinism Rides Again | The Arts of Polling

Gene Editing and Human Righrts Event poster

September 2018

Gene Editing & Human Rights | Selling Eugenics | CGS is Hiring

August 2018

GM Children? | 23andBigPharma | Genes for Success

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July 2018

CRISPR Bioethics | Genetic Privacy in the Trump Age | Surrogacy Meets Reality TV

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June 2018

Genetic Testing Scrutinized | "3-person IVF" for Infertility | Living in Gattaca

Children looking into a mirror

May 2018

Forensic DNA and the “Golden State Killer” | CRISPR Questions

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April 2018

Eugenics in CA | Race and Genetics Again? | Public Engagement

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March 2018

Revisiting Gattaca | New Book: Beyond Bioethics | Gene Editing & Human Rights

A young macaques monkey rests on an adult macaques monkey's back.

February 2018

Join us to revisit Gattaca | How to Think about "Designer Babies" | Human Cloning Again?

“Many Thanks” is written in bold letters. Below, text reads: “Because of your support, the future of our world is looking brighter! Happy 2018!” The bottom displays CGS’ logo with three overlapping circles.

January 2018

Looking Back, Looking Ahead | Feminist Voices in Assisted Reproduction Debates

A little girl, dressed in a Wonder Woman's costume, sits on a sidewalk eating ice cream, while adults walk around her.

December 2017

2017 Highlights |  Musings of a Comics Fan | Gene Drive Hits Speed Bump

Talking Biopolitics promotional ad, featuring Shobita Parthasarathy, the cover of her latest book, Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe, andTania Simoncelli

November 2017

Revisiting GATTACA in the Era of Trump | Talking Biopolitics Explores "Patent Politics" 

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October 2017

CRISPR Embryo Research - Do Context and Intentions Matter? | Surrogacy in Bollywood and US Tabloids

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September 2017

Questionable Claims on CRISPR'd Embryos | Rogue Fertility Doctor Denounced | Netflix Series Gets IVF Right

A human oocyte is held by a glass holding pipette (left). A beveled glass pipette containing an immobilized ejaculated spermatozoon is inserted through the zona pellucida and deep into the oolemma, creating a deep furrow. Once the membrane of the oocyte is penetrated, the sperm is deposited therein.

August 2017

Gene-Edited Embryos for Reproduction? | FDA Reprimands Notorious Fertility Doctor

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July 2017

Talking Biopolitics Begins | Rogue Fertility Doctor Aims for Designer Babies | Fixing Genes won't Fix Us