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 | September 18, 2008
- Announcing BioPolicyWiki: An online tool tracking global biotechnology policies
- New CGS Publication; New Look and Name for Genetic Crossroads
- Stem Cell Research in the US Presidential Election
- Neo-con Logic: Designer Babies for All
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- Other News
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 | August 21, 2008
- Stem Cell Research and the Presidential Candidates
- The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney and her Cloned Dog Booger
- Breadline Or Egg Line?
- The True Believer
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- Other News
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 | July 16, 2008
- CGS Testifies at First US Congressional Hearing on Global Governance of Human Biotech
- New Dog Cloning Companies; Old Tricks
- Stem Cell Roundup
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- Other News and Views
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 | June 11, 2008
- Disgraced Stem Cell Researcher Turns to Dog Cloning for Cash
- Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics
- Congressional Hearing on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies
- Race-specific Drugs: Regulatory Trends and Public Policy
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | May 14, 2008
- U.S. Researchers Create Genetically Modified Human Embryo
- U.S. set to swell its criminal DNA database
- So you think you own your body?
- Sex selection: On sale here
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | April 16, 2008
- Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.
- CGS on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation
- Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?
- How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam
- The Many Hats of Robert Klein
- Child Abuse: UK Police Want Genes of 5-Year-Old "Future Criminals"
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- Other News and Views
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 | March 17, 2008
- Female Sperm and Gay Guinea Pigs
- Genomes of the Rich and Famous
- PhRMA and BIO Self-Image: Downtrodden and Besieged
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short
- More Media Coverage of Surrogacy Outsourcing
- Looking for Donor Dads
- Cloning, Children, and Consent
- California Stem Cell Research Program Update
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- Other News
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 | February 7, 2008
- Please welcome... Generations Ahead
- A new path for stem cell research, without Holy Grails
- New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic
- Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities
- Making Waves, Practicing Wisdom
- CGS News: 2007 Report on Activities
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | December 21, 2007
- 2007 in Review:
- Reprogramming the Stem Cell Debate
- Googling Your Genes
- Scientific Racism Redux
- Controversy Escalates at California Stem Cell Program
- The Baby Business Makes News
- Eugenics: Remembered. Re-imagined. Revived?
- CGS Event: Shannon Brownlee on Overtreated
- Book Review: Richard Hayes on Babies by Design and Enhancing Evolution
- New from CGS: A Reproductive Justice Framework for Assisted Reproduction
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | November 29, 2007
- Moving Beyond the Stem Cell Wars
- Beyond the Embryo Fight
- Stem-Cell Science Outruns Political Debate
- Undue Influence at the Stem Cell Institute
- Human Cloning Isn’t Monkey Business
- Watson's Dark Vision
- GM Watch
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News
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 | October 25, 2007
- James Watson's Legacy: Promoting a New Eugenics
- Nobel Notions and the Uses of Genetics
- In-Home Genetic Tests Represent Risk
- Food from Cloned Animals: A Bait and Switch?
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | September 26, 2007
- The New CGS Website
- Google Wants to Track Your Medical History - And Your Genome
- Medical Exploitation
- Special Focus: Lessons of the Recent Gene Therapy Death
- The Rebirth of a Nation?
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | August 29, 2007
- Death in Gene Therapy Experiment Rocks Field
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | July 26, 2007
- Reflections on Repro-Genetics: Liberals and Progressives Weigh In
- Do Two Friedman Units Equal One Okarma?
- The Latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- CGS in the News
- Other News and Views
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 | June 29, 2007
- Bigger than Dolly?
- Synthetic Biology: Venter's Trillion-Dollar Dream Spotlights Dangers of "Self-Regulation"
- Prisoners and Clinical Trials: Cruel and Unusual Ethics?
- The latest from Biopolitical Times
- Other News
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 | May 31, 2007
- Hypertension: What Oprah Doesn't Know
- Experts Slam UK Decision to Allow Human-Animal Embryos, Relax Rules
- The latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | April 30, 2007
- The Case Against Perfection: New Book by Noted Scholar
- First U.S. Public Funding of Research Cloning Tainted by Scandal and Questions
- California Stem Cell Update: Internal Power Struggles and Pending Legislation
- House of Representatives Passes Ban on Genetic Discrimination
- Federal Bill to Ban Patents on Human Genes Introduced
- The latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | February 28, 2007
- Researchers push for looser rules on procuring women's eggs
- UK campaign to stop genetically modified human embryos
- Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios
- Bill to end human gene patents introduced in House
- California stem cell update
- The latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | January 26, 2007
- Important changes in UK law on reproductive and genetic technologies
- Stem cell research in the US
- National Council of Churches adopts policies on human biotechnology
- The latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | December 14, 2006
- 2006: Year in Review
- California's stem cell research program: An update
- The latest from Biopolitical Times
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | November 15, 2006
- Announcing the CGS Blog: Biopolitical Times
- New Directions for Stem Cell Politics?
- Beyond Bioethics: Groundbreaking Proposal on Human Biotech Policy
- Call for Public Comments on UK Eggs-for-Research Policy
- Toward Fair Cures: Health Disparities and Stem Cell Research
- Eugenics Conference
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | October 20, 2006
- California Victory: Standards and Safeguards on Eggs for Research
- After the Hwang Scandal: Korean Women's Groups Hold International Conference
- Stem Cells in Election Season: Surprisingly Low Profile
- California Stem Cell Agency Moves to Dampen Expectations
- Better Late than Never: Scientists Discuss Risks of Egg Procurement
- Calls for a Moratorium on Food from Cloned Animals
- Survey of Fertility Clinics: Selection Technologies Widespread in the U.S.
- Showdown on Research Cloning in Australia
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | September 14, 2006
- Stem Cells on Missouri's Ballot: Much Political Ado, Little Policy Meaning
- Fake it Til You Make it
- Stem Cell Gold Rush
- Stem Cells in California
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | August 4, 2006
- After the vote and the veto: Making sense of stem cell politics
- The Senate stem cell package: Understanding the three bills
- California stem cell research program: The governor's blank check
- Book reviews: Stem cells, enhancement and cloning
- When is a racial pharmacy bad medicine?
- The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy
- Other News
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 | June 29, 2006
- A Decade After Dolly
- CGS Authors Stem Cell Report Published by The Century Foundation
- Progressive Values and Stem Cell Research at Take Back America
- California Stem Cell Missteps Continue
- California Bill on Eggs for Research Approved by Assembly Committee
- Transhumanists Declare the “Right” to be Super-Human
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | May 12, 2006
- The Hwang Saga Continues: A Genetic Crossroads Exclusive
- California Bill on Eggs for Research Unanimously Approved
by Committee
- Groups Protest Proposed Loosening of UK Guidelines on Eggs
for Research
- LGBT Community Discusses Reproductive and Genetic Technologies
- Pro-Choice, Public Interest Groups Call for Stronger California
Stem Cell Standards
- CIRM Court Ruling Does Little to Solve Its Problems
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | March 29, 2006
- Cloning Scientist No Longer Supreme
- The Baby Business
- Policy Developments on Women's Eggs
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | February 23, 2006
- Rethinking research cloning?
- California stem cell program still missing the mark
- Research cloning scandal grows to include fraud, kickbacks,
and bribes
- University tries to downplay U.S. researcher's role in cloning
fraud
- Eggs for research: Endangering women's health?
- The World Economic Forum addresses human biotechnologies
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | January 27, 2006
- C- for the California stem cell research program
- Korea and beyond: Hwang faces criminal charges as the scandal
widens to the United States
- Women's eggs for research: Scandal expands
- Calls for effective oversight and regulation
- Other news
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 | December 15, 2005
- Faked data, unethical egg procurement, cover-ups, lies:
Stem cell and cloning scandal highlights need for real regulation
- California stem cell research continues to stumble
- Reproductive Justice for All: A US Policy Conference
- National Council of Churches approves policy on new human
biotechnologies
- Eggs versus Ethics in Stem Cell Debate
- CGS News
- Other News
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 | November 10, 2005
- Fertility Doctors Announce Sex Selection "Clinical
Trial" That Will Create Children For Experimental Study
- World Stem Cell Foundation: End Run Around Oversight?
- San Francisco Clinic Set To Provide Eggs For Research
- California Stem Cell Program: A Billion-Dollar Bait And
Switch?
- Sacramento State Hosts First Ever Conference On The History
Of California Eugenics
- Baby Gender Mentor Is Fraudulent, Some Women Say
- Jose Canseco And Human Genetic Engineering: Will He Be Right
Again?
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| September 29, 2005
- MENTORING GENDER, SELECTING SEX
- CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: CONTINUING CONTROVERSY
- Who gets the profits?
- First grants announced but funding sources uncertain
- Bill to reform Prop 71 passes State Senate 39-0
- NY Times pegs human biotech as coming Supreme Court priority
- Jose Canseco: "Super humans walking around in 5 to
8 years"
- Move to gut UK oversight body
- Florida stem cell initiative: Lessons from California's
mistakes?
- UK's Lord Robert Winston slams stem cell claims
- Campaign to End Sex Selection
- California symposium on eugenics and genetic engineering,
Oct. 21
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| August 4, 2005
- ANNOUNCEMENT: CGS RECEIVES "LOCAL HERO" AWARD FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
- Senator Frist's stem cell shift
- Dog cloning reopens controversy
- UPDATE: PUBLIC INTEREST CHALLENGES TO CALIFORNIA STEM CELL INSTITUTE CONTINUE
- RESOURCES
- LEGISLATIVE UPDATES
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
- IN THE NEWS
- CGS NEWS
- One step forward, two steps back
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| May 31, 2005
- STEM CELL CONTROVERSIES CONTINUE TO GROW
- RESOURCES
- NEWS
- CGS NEWS
- IN MEMORIUM, MARC LAPPÉ, 1943-2005
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| March 31, 2005
- CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM UNDER FIRE; CRITICS INCLUDE PROP. 71 SUPPORTERS
- CONFUSION IN THE STATES OVER STEM CELLS; FEDERAL ACTION EXPECTED
- UK GOVERNMENT REPORT SUPPORTS REPRODUCTIVE CLONING, SEX SELECTION
- United Nations calls for Bans on Human Cloning
- California Bill To Ban Cloned And Genetically Modified Pets
- FoE Condemns Athletic "Gene Doping"
- NEWS
- RESOURCES
- CGS NEWS
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| January 24, 2005
- MOUNTING CONTROVERSY OVER STEM CELL INSTITUTE IN CALIFORNIA
- REPORTS
- EVENTS
- RESOURCES
- NEWS
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| December 2, 2004
- SKEPTICISM AND QUESTIONS FOLLOW PASSAGE OF CALIFORNIA'S $3 BILLION STEM-CELL INITIATIVE
- FEATURED EVENT: "THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, THE BIOTECH AGENDA AND THE HUMAN FUTURE: WHAT DIRECTION FOR LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES?"
- UNITED NATIONS TO DRAFT "DECLARATION AGAINST HUMAN CLONING"
- 7th Annual World Congress of Bioethics: A Report
- RESOURCES
- Research cloning, PGD, and nuclear transfer in the United Kingdom
- New Zealand Legislation
- NEWS
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| September 23, 2004
- PROPOSITION 71—"THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CURES ACT"
- "HUMANS 2.0: WILL YOUR GRANDCHILDREN BE GENETICALLY MODIFIED?" BERKELEY, SEPT. 28
- GENETIC DOPING AND THE OLYMPICS
- EVENTS
- RESOURCES
- NEWS
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| July 9, 2004
- Report from the Gender and Justice in the Gene Age Conference
- Special Review: New Controversies over Stem Cells and Cloning
- CGS PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS
- Latest Resources
- NEWSDAY SERIES ON SEX SELECTION
- IN THE NEWS
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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| April 9, 2004
- Report from the Gender and Justice in the Gene Age Conference
- Special Review: New Controversies over Stem Cells and Cloning
- CGS PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS
- Latest Resources
- NEWSDAY SERIES ON SEX SELECTION
- IN THE NEWS
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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| January 13, 2004
- TOP TEN DEVELOPMENTS OF 2003
- FEATURE: HUMAN-ANIMAL CHIMERAS
- RESOURCES
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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| November 24, 2003
- UK Agency Recommends Stronger Rules on Sex Selection
- International Conference: Within and Beyond the Limits to Human Nature: The Challenge of the New Human Genetic Technologies - A CGS Special Report
- United Nations Postpones Further Discussion on Treaty Banning Human Cloning: What Happened and Why? - A CGS Special Report
- RESOURCES
- IN THE NEWS
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
- CGS NEWS
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| October 2, 2003
- CANADA CONSIDERS COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION ON ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
- ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AND CLONING
- RESOURCES
- IN THE NEWS
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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| August 20, 2003
- Sex Selection Moves to Consumer Culture
- MEDIA COVERAGE OF IVF'S 25TH BIRTHDAY
- RESOURCES
- IN THE NEWS
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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| July 11, 2003
- TRANSHUMANISM RELOADED
- IN THE NEWS
- RESOURCES
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
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| June 9, 2003
- Summer Reading
- IN THE NEWS
- RESOURCES
- LEGISLATIVE BEAT
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| May 9, 2003
- MEDIA COVERAGE OF DNA AT FIFTY
- IN THE NEWS
- RESOURCES
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION
- STATE CLONING LEGISLATION
- LEGISLATION IN CANADA AND SLOVAKIA
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| February 7, 2003
- NEW HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES ENGAGED AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL
- SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN CLONING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, THE ENVIRONMENT: WASHINGTON DC, FEBRUARY 25
- CGS CONTRIBUTION TO UK’S PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON SEX SELECTION
- NEW STAFF
- CHANGES TO CENTER’S WEBSITE
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| January 12, 2003
- MEDIA REACTION TO RAELIAN CLONING CLAIM
- TWO IMPORTANT OP-EDS
- CGS AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
- UC REGENTS LECTURE BY CHARLES WEINER: "THE TROUBLED HELIX"
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| December 17, 2002
- 2002: AN ASSESSMENT
- NEW ADVOCACY OF INHERITABLE GENETIC MODIFICATION (IGM)
- UPDATE ON THE PUSH FOR SEX SELECTION
- TWO WORKSHOPS ON HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
- New study: Bioethics as "the ethics of the scientific establishment"
- China, "The Cloning Superpower"
- CGS NEWS: SYLLABI AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS ON CGS WEB SITE
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| November 26, 2002
- SUPPORT FOR BANS ON HUMAN CLONING
- SUPPORT FOR BANS ON HUMAN GENETIC MODIFICATION
- CLONING FIRMS STUMBLE
- CGS NEWS
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| October 25, 2002
- Special Report: The United Nations Treaty on Human Cloning
- German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer Calls for International Accord on Human Genetics
- World Social Forum (WSF) to Address New Human Genetic Technologies
- "Designer Baby" Advocate Gregory Stock Gives Keynote at Biotechnology Investment Conference
- CGS News
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| September 18, 2002
- UN Treaty to Ban Human Reproductive Cloning
- World Congress of Bioethics
- Australia Bans All Human Cloning
- New York Times Reviews Gregory Stock's Redesigning Humans
- Opera Addresses New Human Genetic Technologies
- Genetic Crossroads
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| August 12, 2002
- Two Important Events
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) in the News
- CGS news
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| July 11, 2002
- World Watch Magazine Special Issue: "Beyond Cloning: The Risk of Rushing into Human Genetic Engineering"
- New Articles and Op-Eds
- Missed Message: Deeper Analysis of the President’s Council on Bioethics Report
- CGS news
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| June 12, 2002
- End Game in the Senate Cloning Debate
- New op- eds by the Center for Genetics and Society
- WHO report sanctions genetic enhancement and inheritable genetic modification
- FDA acknowledges dangers of "de facto germline gene transfer" in fertility treatment
- CGS news
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| April 30, 2002
- INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS POLARIZATION ON HUMAN CLONING
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
- NEW RESOURCES ON CLONING AND HUMAN GENETIC MANIPULATION
- NEW PROPOSALS TO "RETHINK OUR OPPOSITION TO EUGENICS"
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| October 3, 2001
- Health and Human Rights Leaders Call for International Ban on Cloning and Species-Altering Procedures
- Human Cloning Advocate Pushes Fertility Clinics to OK Sex Selection
- World Conference on Racism Addresses Human Genetic Engineering
- Scientists Boycott Conference Organized by Human Cloning Advocate
- Legislative Updates: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia
- UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Gene Watch 2001: Workshops with the Experts
- "EXPLORATORY INITIATIVE" IS NOW THE "CENTER FOR GENETICS AND SOCIETY"
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| August 18, 2001
- EDITORS' NOTE
- Women's Health and Reproductive Rights Leaders Call for Cloning Ban
- Cloning Advocates at the National Academy of Sciences
- France and Germany Call for UN To Draft Global Cloning Treaty
- EMBRYO CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH
- EVENTS AND RESOURCES
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| June 21, 2001
- EDITORS' NOTE
- TWO BILLS: A REAL CLONING BAN AND A BAN THAT ISN'T ONE
- Canada Calls for Global Bans on Human Cloning, Germline Modification
- OTHER NEWS
- UPCOMING EVENTS
- NEW RESOURCES
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| May 16, 2001
- EDITORS' NOTE
- HUMAN CLONING UPDATE
- "Next Step for Science" and "Shaping Things to Come"
- Gerhard Shroder Rejects Human Genetic Manipulation
- EVENTS AND RESOURCES
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| March 31, 2001
- US CONGRESS TO CONSIDER BAN ON HUMAN CLONING
- INTERNATIONAL COALITION FORMING TO OPPOSE HUMAN CLONING AND INHERITABLE GENETIC MODIFICATION
- REPORT FROM THE ANTINORI / ZAVOS CLONING WORKSHOP IN ROME
- POINTERS AND QUOTES
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| February 21, 2001
- EDITORS' NOTE
- UPCOMING EVENTS
- American-Italian Team Says It Will Begin Cloning Effort
- Biotech Industry Position on Human Cloning
- David King on the Genome Announcement
- POINTERS: SAMPLING OF ARTICLES ON HUMAN CLONING AND TECHNO-EUGENICS
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| January 7, 2001
- EDITORS' NOTE
- E Magazine Cover Story: "Designing People"
- Disabled Peoples International Statement on Human Genetics
- French Best-Selling Novel Celebrates a Post-Human Future
- Two New Techniques Developed for Producing "Designer Sperm"
- Bill Prohibiting Human Cloning Introduced in Texas
- Flood of Responses to Watson's Genetic Determinism
- Eduardo Kac on Transgenic Animals as Art
- UPCOMING EVENTS
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| December 7, 2000
- Netherlands Bank Code: No Funds for Human Genetic Modification
- Human Cloning Effort by Religious Group Reportedly to Begin
- New Comments on Human Genetic Modification by Noted Figures: James Watson, Daniel Wikler, Gregory Stock
- Lawsuit in Gene Therapy Death Settled; Suspended Experiment Allowed to Resume
- Embryo Cloning Debate Grows in Europe and UK
- New Push for In Utero Gene Transfer
- POINTERS
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| October 16, 2000
- EDITORS' NOTE
- NOT A DESIGNER BABY: Embryo Selection Provides Tissue Match for Sick Sister
- New Bans on Human Genetic Modification in Japan and Netherlands
- Greenpeace Prevents Patents on Pig-Human Embryos
- Gelsinger wrongful death lawsuit names bioethicist Caplan
- California Cloning Committee Meets in Los Angeles
- Scientists, Activists, and Biotech Execs Debate Human Genetic Modification at State of the World Forum
- Art Exhibits on Biotechnology
- UPCOMING EVENTS
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| September 19, 2000
- AAAS RELEASES REPORT ON HUMAN GERMLINE ENGINEERING
- New Policies on Human Embryo Research in the US and UK
- European Parliament Opposes UK Move on Embryo Cloning
- British Medical Experts Predict Human Cloning Despite Strong Public Opposition
- Supporters of Human Cloning Press Ahead
- Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing
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| August 4, 2000
- The New Politics of Human Genetics: A Comment and a Request
- Collins and Venter on Human Germline Engineering
- Noteworthy Post-Announcement Media Accounts
- "Human Genetics Calendar 2000 to 2040" by Corporate Futurist Joseph Coates
- Lee Silver on "Type I" and "Type II" enhancements
- Stuart Newman on the Hazards of Developmental Gene Modification
- Support for Genetic Discrimination
- Behind the Jesse Gelsinger Story
- Reporting Rules for Gene Therapy Experiments to be Loosened
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| June 12, 2000
- BREAKING NEWS: Human genome sequencing announcement imminent
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
- UPCOMING EVENTS
- RECENT EVENT
- RAND study: "Biotechnology and Global Governance"
- NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
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| May 10, 2000
- ALERT: California Human Cloning Advisory Committee meets in San Francisco on Monday, May 15
- "Rethinking ELSI," Harvard University, May 15-16
- "The New Techno-Eugenics and the Threat to Global Equity and Human Development," Harvard University, May 18
- "Enhancing the Human" symposium with Gregory Stock, Peter Sloterdijk, Daniel Kevles, Paul Billings, Gregory Benford; UCLA, May 21
- "The Operable Human," Peter Sloterdijk, Harvard University, May 19
- NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
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| April 16, 2000
- Computer scientist Bill Joy warns of dangers posed by genetic engineering, nanotechnolgoy, and robotics
- Conference on "Extended Life / Eternal Life"
- Biodevastation 2000 addresses human genetic technologies
- New book by Gregory Stock and John Campbell promotes human germline engineering
- Council for Responsible Genetics issues "Genetic Bill of Rights"
- More media attention to advocates of techno-eugenics
- MORE LINKS TO NEWS ABOUT HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES
- NOTICES AND REQUEST FROM THE EDITORS
- Atlantic Monthly article on corporate-university ties
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| February 28, 2000
- Thanks to signators of the Open Letter
- Report on the Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference
- Agenda of the Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference
- UPCOMING EVENT
- Annas, Caplan, and Elias criticize Geron's Ethics Advisory Board
- Wired Magazine: Prestigious researchers at Extropy Institute conference
- NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
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| February 4, 2000
- RECENT EVENTS
- The Asilomar 25th anniversary symposium, the "Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society," will be held February 15-17 in Pacific Grove, CA.
- AAAS Symposium: "Changing Our Genetic Future Through Germline Intervention," Washington DC, Monday, February 21
- "The New Human Genetic Technologies and Social Justice," Santa Cruz, CA, Wednesday March 1
- New Scientist: "The Last Taboo"
- Lord Robert Winston: "Genetically Modified Babies Inevitable"
- Charles Murray: "Deeper into the Brain"
- Richard Hayes: "In the Pipeline: Genetically Modified Humans?"
- International Network on Bioethics and Disability
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| December 26, 1999
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
- January 27 California State Human Cloning Advisory Committee
- February 15-17 Symposium on Science and Ethics in Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference (Pacific Grove, CA)
- February 21 AAAS Symposium: "Changing Our Genetic Future Through Germline Intervention" (Washington DC)
- March 25-27 Biodevastation 4 (Boston, MA)
- OTHER NEWS AND POINTERS
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| November 21, 1999
- WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
- Anti-eugenics protest in London at Galton Society
- John Horgan calls techno-eugenic predictions "irresponsible"
- New article on human genetic engineering by Leon Kass
- Time magazine provides forum for designer baby advocates
- Developments in research on artificial chromosomes
- Francis Fukuyama: The end of (human) history, reconsidered
- Bioethicist Arthur Caplan predicts designer babies
- Lester Thurow advocates genetic enhancement
- German philosophers debate eugenic engineering
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| October 4, 1999
- WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
- ASILOMAR 2
- DER SPIEGEL COVER STORY
- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS PROMOTING TECHNO-EUGENICS
- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OPPOSING TECHNO-EUGENICS
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| September 10, 1999
- WELCOME TO TEEL
- UPDATE AND PLANNING MEETING - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
- POINTERS
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