December 11, 2024

Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It

(Wired) – “People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture.” For years now, aspiring parents have been designing their children. Screening embryos for disease-causing genes during IVF, selecting their future baby’s sex, … Read More



 
 

November 7, 2024

Will South Africa become first country to accept controversial form of human genome editing?

(Nature) – Scientists raise the alarm following updated research ethics guidelines on heritable human genome editing. Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable (or germline) human genome editing. … Read More



 
 

October 24, 2024

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

(Wired) – The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races. AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research … Read More



 
 

August 16, 2024

Editing Fetal Genomes Is on the Horizon ? a Medical Anthropologist Explains Why Ethical Discussions with the Target Communities Should Happen Sooner Rather Than Later

(The Conversation) – I’m a medical anthropologist and bioethicist who studies the values and experiences driving prenatal gene therapy developments, including genome editing. Human prenatal genome editing has not happened yet – as far as we know. Prenatal genome editing … Read More



 
 

July 26, 2024

Controversial CRISPR Scientist Promises “No More Gene-Edited Babies” Until Society Comes Around

(MIT Technology Review) – He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a … Read More



 
 

July 4, 2024

Japan’s Top Court Orders Government to Compensate Disabled People Who Were Forcibly Sterilized

(ABC News) – In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of … Read More



 
 

June 7, 2024

Federal Officials and Physician Groups Express Outrage Over Revelations of Recent Coercive Sterilizations

(STAT News) – Federal officials, medical organizations, and reproductive health advocacy groups have expressed outrage in response to STAT’s recent investigation revealing that women with sickle cell disease have felt pressured into sterilizations as recently as 2017 and 2022. (Read … Read More