Society

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

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
sickle cell in test tube

The ethical dilemma of gene editing: Our reporter took your questions

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post [cites CGS’ Pete Shanks ] | 12.08.2023

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Human Genetic Modification
sickle cells

New Sickle Cell Therapies Will Be Out of Reach Where They Are Needed Most

By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times | 12.08.2023

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Other Countries
embryos on blue background

Would you do it if you could? Advanced DNA testing for embryos is here — and it’s fraught.

By Carey Goldberg, The Boston Globe | 12.07.2023

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Genetic Selection
gene therapy money

White House targets drug patents in latest effort to lower prices

By Washington Post Staff, The Washington Post | 12.07.2023

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U.S. Federal
scales weighing fertility vs gene therapy

New gene therapies confront many sickle cell patients with an impossible choice: a cure or fertility

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 12.06.2023

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Human Genetic Modification
front page of 1814 NEJM

New England Journal of Medicine reckons with its racist past and complicity in slavery

By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 12.06.2023

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Media Coverage
graphic of multiple embryos

Call to help UK IVF patients donate unused embryos after shortage hinders research

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 12.06.2023

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Society
half a human head with circuits in the foreground

Superintelligent AI — Transhumanism etc

By Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill, The Financial Times | 12.05.2023

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A "Post-Human" Future?