Technologies

Will Putin Prevent Rebrikov from Attempting Heritable Genome Editing?

By Pete Shanks | 10.08.2019

Biopolitical Times

The Russian molecular biologist who wants to edit the genomes of human embryos is getting impatient with authorities who won't yet let him go ahead.

Policies

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

Despite Calls for a Moratorium, More ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Expected Soon

By Emily Mullin, One Zero | 09.16.2019

Aggregated News

At least 10 babies have been born to apparently infertile women as a result of a controversial in vitro fertilization...

Assisted Reproduction

Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change?

By Katie Palmer and Usha Lee McFarling, Stat | 09.03.2024

Aggregated News

U.S. States

Donor identifiability from birth: Findings of the Young Adults Study

By Sophie Zadeh, PET | 09.02.2024

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Other Countries

'This is Eugenics': Exploitation and Discrimination in Egg Donation Exposed

By Pandora Dewan, Newsweek | 09.02.2024

Aggregated News

U.S. Federal

Trump pledges IVF funding on election trail

By Hannah Flynn, PET | 09.02.2024

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U.S. Federal

‘Who are we to say they shouldn’t exist?’: Dr. Neal Baer on the threat of CRISPR-driven eugenics

By Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science | 08.26.2024

Aggregated News

Human Genetic Modification

‘Enhancing’ future generations with CRISPR is a road to a ‘new eugenics,’ says ethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Live Science | 08.26.2024

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Human Genetic Modification

Professor Osagie K. Obasogie’s ‘Legacies of Eugenics’ Project

By Gwyneth Shaw, Berkeley Law | 08.23.2024

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Human Genetic Modification

a graphic of a masked doctor opting for one gene over another

Breeding for IQ

By Emily R. Klancher Merchant, Los Angeles Review of Books | 08.22.2024

Aggregated News

Genetic Selection