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Don’t Buy California’s Callous Attempt to Ignore People’s DNA Privacy Rights, EFF Tells Court

By Karen Gullo, Electronic Frontier Foundation [cites CGS and Pete Shanks] | 03.29.2019

Analyzing and indefinitely keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of Californians arrested for felonies, but never charged with a crime...

Policies
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Scientists Call for a Moratorium on Editing Inherited Genes

By Karen Weintraub, Scientific American [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

A group of 18 prominent scientists—including some who helped develop CRISPR–Cas9, the current leading tool for gene editing—issued a call...

Human Genetic Modification
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Call For Global Moratorium On Creating Gene-Edited Babies

By Rob Stein , National Public Radio [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited...

Human Genetic Modification

Biopolitical Times

Notable Blog Posts in 2020

By CGS | 01.07.2021

Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of...

Biopolitics

Now Online: Climate Crisis, Designer Babies and Pandemics

By CGS | 09.24.2020

In a wide-ranging conversation on September 22, a stellar panel grappled with an ambitious agenda announced by the event’s title...

Human Genetic Modification

Our Commitments to Social Justice and Anti-Racist Work

By Center for Genetics and Society | 06.06.2020
We are in a moment of extreme challenge for each of us and for our country's future – yet again...
Bioethics