Society

U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA from Detained Immigrants

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

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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
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UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the ’60s and ’70s

By Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times | 12.22.2022

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Bioethics
He Jiankui

The Crispr Baby Scientist Is Back. Here’s What He’s Doing Next

By Emily Mullin, Wired | 12.21.2022

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Human Genetic Modification
Henrietta Lacks

A Statue of Henrietta Lacks Will Replace a Monument to Robert E. Lee

By Derrick Bryson Taylor, The New York Times | 12.20.2022

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Arts & Culture
an ad for surrogacy

Global surrogacy agency accused of putting women at risk with ‘unethical’ medical procedures

By Shanti Das, The Guardian | 12.18.2022

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Genetic Selection
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Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science

By Angela Saini, Undark | 12.16.2022

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Bioethics
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Race Is a Biological Fiction, and Potent Social Reality

By Charles M. Blow, Undark | 12.15.2022

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Eugenics
genes in a syringe

How gene therapy is emerging from its ‘dark age’

By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 12.14.2022

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Genomics
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Q&A: Jonathan Kahn on New Frontiers in Racial Profiling

By Jonathan Moens, Undark | 12.14.2022

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Bioethics