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Poll Finds Prop. 37 is Likely to Pass

America: Human and Animal Cloning

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

America: Human and Animal Cloning

America: Human and Animal Cloning

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

America: Human and Animal Cloning

United Kingdom: Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

United Kingdom: Human-Animal Hybrids

Illinois Bill Could Allow State To Collect DNA From Those Presumed Innocent, Marking Nationwide Shift

Highlighted Topics

Synthetic Biology

Questioning the "Green" Agenda

Weak DNA Evidence Could Undermine Justice, Experts Say

Study Finds Birth Defects Down Among IVF Babies

The Reunion - Dolly the Sheep

A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells

How To Buy a Daughter: Choosing the sex of your baby has become a multimillion-dollar industry

Sperm Precursor Cells Created in Lab

Christie Vetoes Bill That Would Have Eased Tough Rules for Gestational Surrogates

Wisconsin Ruling Prevents Most Insurers From Denying Benefits to Surrogates

DNA Samples in Felony Arrests Boosts Ohio Database

Supreme Court Stays DNA Ruling

Euroscience Open Forum 2012: DNA Gene Testing 'Will Screen Out Lovers'

Prenatal Test Presents Dilemmas to Expectant Mothers

Animal Technologies

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

Cloning, De-extinction, and Possibly Human Applications

Resurrected Mammoths and Dodos? Don't Count on it

Grocers Won’t Sell Altered Fish, Groups Say

A Stealthy De-Extinction Startup

The Narcissism of De-Extinction

Potentially Endless Line of Mice Cloned

Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content

Cloning All Over Again: Reviving the Idea of Re-creating Species

Assisted Reproduction

Woman who Fell Pregnant After Undergoing World's First Successful Womb Transplant has Lost her IVF Baby

A Note of Caution: Freezing Eggs Is Not a Silver Bullet for Age-Related Infertility

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

Crisis-Burdened Spain and Cyprus are Hot Spots for Women to Sell Their Eggs

Baby Sex-Selection Tours Increasingly Popular with Australian Couples Using IVF

Nation’s First Egg Bank Deluged With Donors

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

Branstad Signs Bill Widening DNA Sampling to Misdemeanor Cases

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals are More Likely to Reoffend

Privacy and Progress Inspires California Genetic Information Privacy Bill

What Is a Gene And How Does it Apply to the Law? The Supreme Court Still Doesn't Know.

Justices Wrestle Over Allowing DNA Sampling at Time of Arrest

DNA and the Constitution

Gene-ism and the Trout in the Milk

Sale of Personal Gene Data Condemned as 'Unethical and Dangerous'

Too Much Information

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

A Note of Caution: Freezing Eggs Is Not a Silver Bullet for Age-Related Infertility

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

Crisis-Burdened Spain and Cyprus are Hot Spots for Women to Sell Their Eggs

Nation’s First Egg Bank Deluged With Donors

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

California Lawmakers Consider Paying Women to Provide Eggs for Research

Cracked Open: New Book Looks at Fertility and Reproductive Technology

Nuffield Report: Parents Should Decide Whether or Not to 'Tell'

Genetic Selection

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Lord Robert Winston Warning Over Child ‘Eugenics’

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

Tough Calls on Prenatal Tests

Are Parents Entitled To Create A Dream Child? [VIDEO]

GM Crops Evil, GM Children OK?

HealthWatch: Britain Considers Allowing Babies From 3 Parents [Video]

Three-Person IVF Moves Closer in UK

Eugenics Fear Over Gene Modification

Hybrids & Chimeras

On Vampires and Chromosomes

How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

The British Embryo Authority and the Chamber of Eugenics

The Brain is Not Computable

Neanderthal Clone Poll Finds Most Americans Oppose Cloning Human Relative

Neo Neanderthal

Interview with George Church: Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?

"Adventurous Female Human" Needed to Give Birth to Neandertal

A Rebuttal to Mark Lynas’ GMO Reversal

Inheritable Genetic Modification

How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Lord Robert Winston Warning Over Child ‘Eugenics’

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

New gene therapy births 'designer baby' fears

New Technology Can Make It So 1 Baby Has 3 Parents

Are Parents Entitled To Create A Dream Child? [VIDEO]

UK May Be Close To Approving Nuclear Transfer Technique for IVF

GM Crops Evil, GM Children OK?

Medical Gene Transfer

Exaggerations and Misrepresentations Have No Place in Science Policy Debates

Interview with George Church: Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?

Genetic Breakthrough at OHSU

Advocating Human Germline Interventions

European Agency Backs Approval of a Gene Therapy

Treatment for Blood Disease Is Gene Therapy Landmark

Gene Therapy Can Protect Against HIV

Richmond bioscience company makes strides in HIV research

Thought Experiments on a History of Gene Transfer Experiments

Gene therapy and stem cells unite

Personal genomics

Predicting the IQ of Future People

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

ACMG Issues Clarification Over Incidental Findings Guidance

Sixty Years of a DNA World View

DNA at 60: Still Much to Learn

Harvard Professor Re-Identifies Anonymous Volunteers In DNA Study

Your Genetic Make Up to be Stored, Without Consent, for Profit

Why Predicting the Phenotypic Effect of Mutations is Hard

Reproductive Cloning

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Scientists Create Human Stem Cells Through Cloning

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

Research cloning development underscores the need for US to prohibit reproductive cloning

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Resurrected Mammoths and Dodos? Don't Count on it

A Stealthy De-Extinction Startup

Research Cloning

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Scientists Create Human Stem Cells Through Cloning

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

Research cloning development underscores the need for US to prohibit reproductive cloning

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Should researchers pay for women's eggs?

Cloning, De-extinction, and Possibly Human Applications

Sequencing & Genomics

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'

Predicting the IQ of Future People

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

The Dark Art of Racecraft

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

On Vampires and Chromosomes

Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

ACMG Issues Clarification Over Incidental Findings Guidance

Sex-Selective Discrimination Common in Indian Wombs: US Study

Are Parents Entitled To Create A Dream Child? [VIDEO]

Indian Women Stand Up to Husbands Who Demand Sex-Selective Abortions

Selling the Story: Down Syndrome, Fetal Gene Testing, and The Today Show

Study: Sex-Selective Practices May be Common in Families of Indian Doctors

Sex Selection and Violence Against Women: Global Challenges

More Female Fetuses Aborted in Europe

Rape in India: A Result of Sex Selection?

As a Girl in India, I Learned to Be Afraid of Men

HealthWatch: More Parents Deciding Sex Of Children [Video]

Stem Cell Research

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Scientists Create Human Stem Cells Through Cloning

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

Precision StemCell: Selling Stem Cells & Treating Individuals With ALS as Human Guinea Pigs

California Lawmakers Consider Paying Women to Provide Eggs for Research

As iPS Cell Studies in Humans Approach, Accessible Relevant Pre-Clinical Data Remains Minimal

Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?

Should researchers pay for women's eggs?

Stem-Cell Ruling Riles Researchers

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

Cracked Open: New Book Looks at Fertility and Reproductive Technology

Surrogacy: Joyful, Frightening, Always Risky

Baby Boom: Indian Women Giving Birth to U.S. Babies

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

Shifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?

Surrogacy's Painful Path to Parenthood

Govt Proposes to Bring Bill to Regulate Surrogacy: Azad

‘Business has Boomed’: Canadian Surrogacy Agent Facing 27 Charges Continues her Controversial Work

Donor Wombs: Giving Women Without Uteruses a Chance to Carry a Baby Stirs Assisted Baby Making Debate

Synthetic Biology

A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night

Direct Action? Seats at the Table? All of the Above?

How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?

Never Mind Humanity

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Synthetic Biology as Public Relations

Synthetic Biologists and Conservationists Open Talks

New “Semisynthetic” Anti-Malarial Drug is Unneeded and Sets Dangerous Precedent While Threatening Farmer Livelihoods

Synthetic anti-malarial compound is bad news for artemisia farmers

Microbes Can Mass-Produce Malaria Drug

When Cultures Collide

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night

Precision StemCell: Selling Stem Cells & Treating Individuals With ALS as Human Guinea Pigs

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

California Lawmakers Consider Paying Women to Provide Eggs for Research

Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?

Should researchers pay for women's eggs?

Privacy and Progress Inspires California Genetic Information Privacy Bill

Whole Foods to Require Labeling of GMOs, Eventually

California Bill Seeks Pay for Women Who Donate Eggs for Research

UCSF Discovery a Potential "Earthquake" for Stem Cell Therapies

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Branstad Signs Bill Widening DNA Sampling to Misdemeanor Cases

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

Wake Forest examines eugenics here and abroad

Surrogate Offered $10,000 to Abort Baby

Should Patients Understand that They are Research Subjects?

Stem Cells in Texas: Cowboy Culture

Yes, Virginia, Your Reproductive Rights Are Compromised

The United Kingdom

Patenting Parthenotes: High Court Asks if Parthenotes are 'Human Embryos' Under the Biotech Directive

Your Genetic Make Up to be Stored, Without Consent, for Profit

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Lord Robert Winston Warning Over Child ‘Eugenics’

The Right to Speak Out

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

New gene therapy births 'designer baby' fears

New Technology Can Make It So 1 Baby Has 3 Parents

UK May Be Close To Approving Nuclear Transfer Technique for IVF

Other Countries

Crisis-Burdened Spain and Cyprus are Hot Spots for Women to Sell Their Eggs

Precision StemCell: Selling Stem Cells & Treating Individuals With ALS as Human Guinea Pigs

Baby Sex-Selection Tours Increasingly Popular with Australian Couples Using IVF

Nation’s First Egg Bank Deluged With Donors

Direct Action? Seats at the Table? All of the Above?

In Australia, Gene Patents Also Subject of High Court Struggle

Baby Boom: Indian Women Giving Birth to U.S. Babies

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

Wake Forest examines eugenics here and abroad

Sex-Selective Discrimination Common in Indian Wombs: US Study

Global Governance

Baby Sex-Selection Tours Increasingly Popular with Australian Couples Using IVF

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Nuffield Report: Parents Should Decide Whether or Not to 'Tell'

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Synthetic Biologists and Conservationists Open Talks

Watching the Watchers: Lessons From the Science of Science Advice

New “Semisynthetic” Anti-Malarial Drug is Unneeded and Sets Dangerous Precedent While Threatening Farmer Livelihoods

Shifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?

Alarm over genetic control of embryos

Should Cloning be Used for “De-Extinction”?

Patents & Other IP

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

Patenting Parthenotes: High Court Asks if Parthenotes are 'Human Embryos' Under the Biotech Directive

In Australia, Gene Patents Also Subject of High Court Struggle

Supreme Court Hears Gene Patent Case; Activists Rally on Courthouse Steps

Can Human Genes Be Patented?

Panel Discusses the Legality of Patenting Human Genes [VIDEO]

Supreme Court Critical of Patents on Human Genes

Who should own DNA? All of us

Can We Patent Life?

Not every woman should get the BRCA gene test, U.S. task force says

A "Post-Human" Future?

Predicting the IQ of Future People

Book Review: Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares

Meet the New Eugenics, Same as the Old Eugenics

Exaggerations and Misrepresentations Have No Place in Science Policy Debates

Neanderthal Cloning Comments Spark Controversy in Scientific Community

Interview with George Church: Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?

"Adventurous Female Human" Needed to Give Birth to Neandertal

Could Human Enhancement Turn Soldiers Into Weapons That Violate International Law? Yes

Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - Review

By Hiring Kurzweil, Google Just Killed the Singularity

A Note of Caution: Freezing Eggs Is Not a Silver Bullet for Age-Related Infertility

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

Dad Aims to Change Views of Down Syndrome in New Book

On Vampires and Chromosomes

Never Mind Humanity

Sofia Vergara Freezing Her [Perfect, Perfect, Perfect] Eggs

Book Review: Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares

The Gattaca App for Your Smartphone

Selling the Story: Down Syndrome, Fetal Gene Testing, and The Today Show

To Claim Someone has 'Viking Ancestors' is no Better than Astrology

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

A Petition for Change in Memory of Dan Markingson

Biopolitics, Parties & Pundits

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Branstad Signs Bill Widening DNA Sampling to Misdemeanor Cases

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'

Research cloning development underscores the need for US to prohibit reproductive cloning

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

Biotech & Pharma

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Woman who Fell Pregnant After Undergoing World's First Successful Womb Transplant has Lost her IVF Baby

A Note of Caution: Freezing Eggs Is Not a Silver Bullet for Age-Related Infertility

Scientists Create Human Stem Cells Through Cloning

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

Research cloning development underscores the need for US to prohibit reproductive cloning

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

Branstad Signs Bill Widening DNA Sampling to Misdemeanor Cases

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

The Dark Art of Racecraft

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

A Petition for Change in Memory of Dan Markingson

Predicting the IQ of Future People

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

Prenatal DNA Sequencing

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Lord Robert Winston Warning Over Child ‘Eugenics’

Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale — A Brave New World?

Wake Forest examines eugenics here and abroad

Are Parents Entitled To Create A Dream Child? [VIDEO]

GM Crops Evil, GM Children OK?

HealthWatch: Britain Considers Allowing Babies From 3 Parents [Video]

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

A Note of Caution: Freezing Eggs Is Not a Silver Bullet for Age-Related Infertility

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

A Petition for Change in Memory of Dan Markingson

Sixty Years of a DNA World View

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

Human Stem Cell Cloning: 'Holy Grail' or Techno-Fantasy?

What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'

Dad Aims to Change Views of Down Syndrome in New Book

Sixty Years of a DNA World View

The Real Problems With Psychiatry

DNA at 60: Still Much to Learn

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Can Human Genes Be Patented?

Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

Dad Aims to Change Views of Down Syndrome in New Book

Prenatal DNA Sequencing

Tough Calls on Prenatal Tests

Surrogate Offered $10,000 to Abort Baby

Meet the New Eugenics, Same as the Old Eugenics

Selling the Story: Down Syndrome, Fetal Gene Testing, and The Today Show

A Call for International Prohibition of Forced Genital-Normalizing Surgery and Sterilization

Parents of Down's Syndrome Woman, 21, Can NOT Have her Sterilised, Rules Judge

Environmentalism

How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Synthetic Biologists and Conservationists Open Talks

New “Semisynthetic” Anti-Malarial Drug is Unneeded and Sets Dangerous Precedent While Threatening Farmer Livelihoods

Microbes Can Mass-Produce Malaria Drug

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

GM Crops Evil, GM Children OK?

Resurrected Mammoths and Dodos? Don't Count on it

A Stealthy De-Extinction Startup

The Narcissism of De-Extinction

Branstad Signs Bill Widening DNA Sampling to Misdemeanor Cases

Dad Aims to Change Views of Down Syndrome in New Book

A Petition for Change in Memory of Dan Markingson

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

Your Genetic Make Up to be Stored, Without Consent, for Profit

Shame and Guilt in Minnesota

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

That “Pernicious” Notion of the “Best Interests of the Child”

As iPS Cell Studies in Humans Approach, Accessible Relevant Pre-Clinical Data Remains Minimal

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

Shifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?

Cloning, De-extinction, and Possibly Human Applications

Surrogacy's Painful Path to Parenthood

Surrogacy Laws May Leave Australian Babies Stateless

A Call for International Prohibition of Forced Genital-Normalizing Surgery and Sterilization

Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy

French Gay Marriage Plans Stir Parenthood Debate

Human Rights and Sweden’s Repeal of Required Sterilization for Transgender People

Sweden Ends Forced Sterilisation of Sex Change Patients

New Guidelines: India Not A Viable Option For Gay Couples, Unmarried Couples Or Single Individuals

What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'

The Dark Art of Racecraft

Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

Confusion Reigns on Genes, Race, and Alzheimer’s

Shifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?

Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions

Racial Differences in Allergy Rates: Genes or Environment?

Race as Biology in The New York Times

Too Much Information

Israel Admits Targeting Ethiopian Jews for Compulsory Contraception

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

Stem Cells: A Culture War Gone Quiet

Genome Test Slammed for Assessing ‘Racial Purity’

Canada's Fertility Industry Now Open for (Unregulated) Business

Stem Cell Strife in US and EU Courts

Hijacking Human Rights in Latin America

Gene of the Week: Christianity

Vatican warns of ethical risks with gene progress

Religious leaders confront reproductive technologies

Vatican Ethics Guide Stirs Controversy

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Woman who Fell Pregnant After Undergoing World's First Successful Womb Transplant has Lost her IVF Baby

A Note of Caution: Freezing Eggs Is Not a Silver Bullet for Age-Related Infertility

Scientists Create Human Stem Cells Through Cloning

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

Highlights of the Decade: 2000-2011

About Generations Ahead

Ralph Brave, 1953-2007

History of the Center for Genetics and Society

Jobs and Internships

Staff areas of expertise

Staff, Fellows, and Contributors

Panel: Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing

The Tarrytown Meetings

Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control

Symposium: Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century

Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

Global Governance of the New Human Biotechnologies

Bipartisan inquiry into California’s stem cell agency to hear from Jesse Reynolds

Center for Genetics and Society's Executive Director to Testify before Congress on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies

Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

Richard Hayes's Presentations & Talks

Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies?

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]

Opening Comments at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) consultation on Human Enhancement

Introduction to "The Next Four Years, the Biotech Agenda and the Human Future"

Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies

Towards an International Ethical, Social and Political Accord on Human Cloning and Human Species - Alteration

Interview with Richard Hayes by Casey Walker

Inequality, the Environment and the Human Future

Richard Hayes's Publications

An Emerging Consensus

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

Beyond the Embryo Fight

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF]

A Majoritarian Proposal for Governing Human Biotechnology

Opinion: A truce in the stem cell wars?

Richard Dawkins: Breed humans like cows, horses and dogs?

Does the Senate vote on stem-cell research matter?

Stem Cell Caution

Richard Hayes in the News

UCal Berkeley Pulls Back Freshman Gene Tests

Designer Babies: Ethical? Inevitable?

Immortality 2.0: A Silicon Valley insider looks at California's Transhumanist movement

Designer babies: Creating the perfect child

Inequality and Human Genetics

The Modified Man

House Panel Discusses International Limits On Gene Study to Prevent Competitive Abuse

Cloning Critics Split [PDF]

Cloning Concerns

Genetic Differences

Richard Hayes's Blog Posts

Richard Dawkins: Breed humans like cows, horses and dogs?

Marcy Darnovsky's Presentations & Talks

Complete Video Now Online for Eugenics in California: A Legacy of the Past?

Marcy Darnovsky Interviewed by David Winickoff

Against the Grain: Progressive Bioethics

Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control

Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

Designing Babies [MP3]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky

Which Comes First: The Woman or the Egg?

Democratizing Biopolitics

Marcy Darnovsky's Publications

Who should own DNA? All of us

Eugenics Fear Over Gene Modification

Letters to the Editor of "Contraception" in Response to Coeytaux, Darnovsky, Fogel

Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs

Egg Freezing: Risks to Women and Children Unknown

Surrogacy and Baby-Selling: Latest Fertility Industry Scandal

The Consequence of Unnatural Selection: 160 Million Missing Girls

One Step Closer to Designer Babies

Assisted reproduction and choice in the biotech age: recommendations for a way forward

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Marcy Darnovsky in the News

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?

Panel Discusses the Legality of Patenting Human Genes [VIDEO]

New Technology Can Make It So 1 Baby Has 3 Parents

Are Parents Entitled To Create A Dream Child? [VIDEO]

UK May Be Close To Approving Nuclear Transfer Technique for IVF

Diane Tober's Blog Posts

California Lawmakers Consider Paying Women to Provide Eggs for Research

Sofia Vergara Freezing Her [Perfect, Perfect, Perfect] Eggs

Racial Differences in Allergy Rates: Genes or Environment?

Race as Biology in The New York Times

Israel Admits Targeting Ethiopian Jews for Compulsory Contraception

Marcy Darnovsky's Blog Posts

Confusion Reigns on Genes, Race, and Alzheimer’s

A Rally Against Human Gene Patents on the Supreme Court’s Steps

Al Gore: Human Biotech is a “Driver of Global Change”

Gene-ism and Mass Murder

Sex Selection and Violence Against Women: Global Challenges

Proposed New Gene Manipulation Technique in IVF: Is it Safe? Needed? A Precedent to Designer Babies?

Selling Sickness: The Conference

Eugenics in California: A Legacy of the Past?

European Scientists on Direct-to-Consumer Gene Tests: Thumbs Down

Another Anti-Abortion Sting – This Time, Trying to Blame Planned Parenthood for Sex Selection

Sujatha Jesudason's Presentations & Talks

Reproductive Justice: Voices from SisterSong [MP3]

Reproductive & Genetic Technologies [PDF]

Powerful Reproductive and Genetic Technologies in an Unjust World [PDF]

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies [PDF]

Building Movements [PDF]

The Challenges of Sex Selection [PDF]

Sex Selection: The Old & New Challenges for Asian Women [PDF]

Sujatha Jesudason's Publications

Womb for sale debate surfaces in Nepal

Letter-to-the-editor: Groups' focus is safety of egg donors

The Future of Violence Against Women

Sex Selection [PDF]

Sujatha Jesudason in the News

Oh, No, It's a Girl! South Asians Flock to Sex-Selection Clinics in U.S.

Genetic Disorder

Genetic Testing + Abortion = ???

Parents Want Genetic Test for Disease to Choose Baby's Gender

Many Clinics Use Genetic Diagnosis to Choose Sex [offsite]

A Generation of Women Wiped Out? [PDF]

Your Choice: Boy or Girl?

Wealthy foreign couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

Center for Genetics and Society Identifies Two Eugenic Threats to Communities of Color

It's a Boy! We Made Sure of It

Patricia Berne's Presentations & Talks

Patricia Berne's Publications

Patricia Berne in the News

Jamie D. Brooks's Presentations & Talks

Genetics and Justice

Genetics and Justice

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

Designer Genes and the Implications for Women of Color

Jamie D. Brooks's Publications

Looking for Donor Dads

Blaming Your Genes for Your Health Problems? Not so Fast.

Geneticizing Disease [PDF]

DNA Dieting? It was only a matter of time.....

Oprah on Renting Wombs in India: “It’s beautiful”

Everybody into the Pool

Jamie D. Brooks in the News

House Approves Genetic Test Law [MP3]

Emily Galpern's Presentations & Talks

Surviving Ourselves [PDF]

Targeting College Women for Egg "Donation" [PDF]

The Egg Trade [MP3]

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Genetics and Justice [PDF]

Emily Galpern's Publications

Beyond Embryo Politics

Eggs vs Ethics in the Stem Cell Debate

Emily Galpern in the News

The Egg Trade — Making Sense of the Market for Human Oocytes

New Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Egg Donation

Women's risk is issue in Missouri stem cell debate

Osagie Obasogie's Presentations & Talks

Prisons as BioRepositories: The Racial Impact of Using Prisoners in Clinical Trials [PDF]

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Strict Scrutiny and the FDA: A Model Form of Race Regulation or a Recipe for Disaster? [PDF]

Genetics & Justice: The Science, Policy, and Politics of the New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies [PDF]

Osagie Obasogie's Publications

The End of Race History? Not Yet

Life, Monetized

All That Glitters Isn’t Gold

Clinical trials on trial

Prisoners as Human Subjects: A Closer Look at the Institute of Medicine's Recommendations to Loosen Current Restrictions on Using Prisoners in Scientific Research

Human subjects research with prisoners: putting the ethical question in context

Democrats and DNA Databases

"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"

Osagie Obasogie in the News

Book Review: Anne Pollock’s Medicating Race

Osagie Obasogie on the Jeff Farias Show [MP3 audio]

Designer Babies [MP3 audio]

Death in gene therapy trial raises questions about private IRBs

Mixing animal and human cells gets more exotic

Osagie Obasogie's Blog Posts

The Definitive Book on the Strange History of BiDil

Bill McKibben on Real Time With Bill Maher

More Questions on Fetal Gene Tests

Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

Special Journal Issue on Genes and Athletics

A Moment of Judicial Sanity on DNA Forensics

Eggs From a Different Perspective

Genetic April Foolery on NPR and in The Economist

New York Expands DNA Database . . . Again

An Interesting Weekend on the Perils of Building Better Humans

Jesse Reynolds's Presentations & Talks

Letter to the New York stem cell research program ethics board

Submitted testimony concerning the California stem cell research program

Testimony: Stem Cell Research and Intellectual Property

Jesse Reynolds's Publications

UC Berkeley, Don't Send Those Swabs

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Symbol over Substance

Monkeys, Mitochondria, and the Human Germline

The Battle to Patent Your Genes

Obama Cools the Stem-Cell Debate

Obama's stem cell policy is welcome change, but ethics are permanent feature of debate

Preventing the Next Fertility Clinic Scandal

Custom-Designed Kids: How Darwin's Legacy Is Being Abused

NY stem cell research nears dangerous line

Jesse Reynolds in the News

Marin Voice: Student guinea pigs at Cal?

UCal Berkeley Pulls Back Freshman Gene Tests

UC-Berkeley Drops Part Of DNA Testing Program [Mp3 audio]

UC Berkeley waters down DNA testing

UC Berkeley drops plans to release personal genetic information to incoming freshmen

UC Berkeley drops part of gene-scanning program

Campus DNA Testing Program Will Not Release Individual Results

FDA: Gene Tests Need Premarket Approval

Medicine agency stays immune to budget cuts

FDA calls for genetic tests crackdown

Jesse Reynolds's Blog Posts

The futures that don't need us, that didn't happen, and that we should avoid

Growing controversy over UC Berkeley's gene testing program

Prop 71 mastermind proposes another ballot measure

California Legislation on UC Berkeley Gene Testing

California stem cell agency bars public from meeting on eggs

Bending the Rules in California

The Big Game of Student Genetic Testing

Genes of the Week: Inborn Talent Genetic Test

Gene of the Week: Debt

Stem cells, human genes, and patents

Pete Shanks's Blog Posts

Predicting the IQ of Future People

Direct Action? Seats at the Table? All of the Above?

Supreme Court Hears Gene Patent Case; Activists Rally on Courthouse Steps

Synthetic Biology as Public Relations

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

Who Decides What Patients Need to Know?

Cloning, De-extinction, and Possibly Human Applications

Broad Public Support for "3-Parent Babies" and Crossing the Human Germline? Not What the Data Say

Whole Foods to Require Labeling of GMOs, Eventually

Cloning All Over Again: Reviving the Idea of Re-creating Species

Jessica Cussins's Blog Posts

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

Earth Day in Biopolitics

Shifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?

Broad Public Support for "3-Parent Babies" and Crossing the Human Germline? Not What the Data Say

Experiments with Inheritable Genetic Modification

A Call for International Prohibition of Forced Genital-Normalizing Surgery and Sterilization

Jillian Theil's Blog Posts

Egg Donation Survey

Axing Gamete Donor Anonymity: British Columbia Ruling Reflects Growing Global Conversation

Gene of the Week: Attack on the "Warrior Gene"

Another Expansion of DNA Databases: South Korea Collects DNA from Labor Unionists

FDA Considers Regulation of DTC Gene Tests, Setting Blogs Ablaze

Are We Protecting Human Subjects?

Isn't It Time to Focus on the Real Future?

Fertility Industry Fraud…Yet Again

Mother Jones’ Illustrated Epigenetic Primer

Uncle Sam could want YOU and your DNA, too

Doug Pet's Blog Posts

Prometheus: Bound. Myriad: Condemned?

SynBioWatch to Hold Public Discussion on Synthetic Biology Risks

How to Use $90? Buy a Gene Ring, or Burn for Warmth?

Sex Selection Game-Changer? New Fetal Gene Test Reveals Sex at 7 Weeks

HFEA Triples the Going Rate for Women’s Eggs in UK

Myriad’s Molecular Monopoly to Face the Nine

DNA Forensics: Setting the (Fool’s) Gold Standard

Celebrating Dorothy Roberts and Fatal Invention

Celebrating Our Bodies Ourselves

Sex Selection Blares on World Bank’s Radar

Emily Beitiks' Blog Posts

A Petition for Change in Memory of Dan Markingson

Online Petition Seeks Justice on Behalf of Dan Markingson

Transhumanist Web Series Likely to Disappoint Transhumanists

Will Joseph Merrick, aka the Elephant Man, Ever Rest in Peace?

The Dangers of Fetal Engineering

Race Under the Microscope: A New Video by the Center for Genetics and Society

Gene of the Week: The Success Gene

Canada's Fertility Industry Now Open for (Unregulated) Business

North Carolina Leads the Way in Compensation for Eugenic Sterilization Victims

Illegal Surrogacy Operation the "Tip of the Iceberg"

Emily Stehr's Blog Posts

Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: The Dollars are in the Database

New GeneWatch Issue: Whole Genome Sequencing in Medicine

Full-Genome Tests for Your Kids? For You?

European Society of Human Genetics Reprimands Myriad Genetics

California Genetic Privacy Arguments Go National

ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Gene Patents

Federal Judges Reconsider Police Collection of DNA

California court deems DNA collection from arrestees unconstitutional

Next Generation Identification - not a DNA database, but just as problematic

German campaign to stop DNA database expansion, now in English

Ralph Brave, 1953-2007

Ralph Brave Supplemental Bibliography

Stem-Cell Wonderland

Congratulations, it's a Viking!

Human Plants, Human Harvest

Maryland’s Stem-Cell Wars

James Watson Wants to Build a Better Human

Human beings, as currently constituted, are good enough

Germline Warfare

Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questions

Predicting the IQ of Future People

Talking Biopolitics is Back!

On Vampires and Chromosomes

A Petition for Change in Memory of Dan Markingson

Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!

California Lawmakers Consider Paying Women to Provide Eggs for Research

Direct Action? Seats at the Table? All of the Above?

“World's First GM Babies Born”: 12-Year-Old Article Continues to Cause Confusion

Ethical Imaginaries

Research cloning development underscores the need for US to prohibit reproductive cloning

Public Interest Group Calls on UK to Reject Modifying Genes of Future Generations

Center for Genetics and Society Announces New Leadership

Public interest group calls on FDA to rule "nuclear genome transfer" unacceptable

Center for Genetics and Society applauds recommendations for improvements in oversight and governance of California stem cell agency; calls for additional changes

Women’s health and public interest groups warn against putting women’s health at risk in new kind of research cloning

Pro-choice women's health and public interest advocates voice concerns regarding fetal gene tests for sex and trait selection

Public Interest Group Applauds End of UC Berkeley’s Controversial Genetic Testing of Incoming Students

Public interest group welcomes regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests

Public interest group calls for UC Berkeley to suspend controversial gene tests for incoming students

CGS in the News

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

US Scientists With Cloning Techniques Created Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Stem Cells Recovered From Cloned Human Embryos

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?

Panel Discusses the Legality of Patenting Human Genes [VIDEO]

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

New Technology Can Make It So 1 Baby Has 3 Parents

CGS Publications

Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs

Life, Monetized

Concerns about fetal gene tests for sex and trait selection [video]

"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"

Op-eds & Articles

Who should own DNA? All of us

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

Eugenics Fear Over Gene Modification

The End of Race History? Not Yet

Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

Should You Be Able to Clone Your Pet?

Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can

Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs

Life, Monetized

Responsible Federal Oversight of the New Human Biotechnologies: Opportunities for the New Administration [PDF]

Playing the Gene Card?

Next Steps for Stem Cell Research and Related Policies [PDF]

Geneticizing Disease [PDF]

Assisted Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

A Decade After Dolly [PDF]

The Basics: Stem Cells and Public Policy [PDF]

The California Stem Cell Program at One Year: A Progress Report [PDF]

Gender and Justice in the Gene Age [PDF]

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

Panel Discusses the Legality of Patenting Human Genes [VIDEO]

Are Parents Entitled To Create A Dream Child? [VIDEO]

Hilary Rose: The Problem with the Bioscience Industry – Video

Neo Neanderthal

HealthWatch: More Parents Deciding Sex Of Children [Video]

Genetic Breakthrough at OHSU

Geneticists Breach Ethical Taboo By Changing Genes Across Generations

Freezing Human Eggs for In Vitro Fertilization No Longer Experimental Procedure

Talks & Testimonies

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

Submitted testimony concerning the California stem cell research program

Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies?

Surviving Ourselves [PDF]

Targeting College Women for Egg "Donation" [PDF]

Prisons as BioRepositories: The Racial Impact of Using Prisoners in Clinical Trials [PDF]

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky

Genetics and Justice [PDF]

Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Frequently Asked Questions and Fact Sheet [PDF]

College-age Women, Donor Eggs, and Assisted Reproduction [PDF]

Program on Gender, Justice, and Human Genetics [PDF]

Women’s Eggs and Stem Cell Research [PDF]

Reframing the Politics of Stem Cell Research [PDF]

New Forms of Sex Selection [PDF]

Who We Are [PDF]

Stem Cell Research in California: Lessons Learned [PDF]

2012 Report on Activities [PDF]

2011 Report on Activities [PDF]

2010 Report on Activities [PDF]

2009 Report on Activities [PDF]

2008 Report on Activities [PDF]

2007 Report on Activities [PDF]

2006 Annual Report [PDF]

2005 Annual Report [PDF]

2004 Annual Report [PDF]

2003 Annual Report [PDF]

Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race

Recommended Reading: Fiction

Sex Selection Frequently Asked Questions

Research Cloning Frequently Asked Questions

PGD Frequently Asked Questions

Research Cloning Basic Science

Research Cloning Arguments Pro and Con

Inheritable Genetic Modification Frequently Asked Questions

Inheritable Genetic Modification Arguments Pro and Con

Inheritable Genetic Modification Basic Science

Monthly Views and News archive

Taking the Biotech Discussion Public / Progressive Bioethics

The dangers of growing DNA databases / When Scientists Pick a Fight with the Law

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind"; Internships at CGS

Personal Genomics, Cloning Neanderthals, Decade in Review

Biopolitics in DC and LA; Top Stories of '09

Biopolitics for the 21st Century - Genetic and Reproductive Holiday Gifts

Jesse Gelsinger, 10 Years Later; Cloning for Kicks

California Warning Labels: "Donating" Eggs May Be Hazardous to Your Health

CGS and Other Groups File Brief in Support of Gene Patent Challenge

What Kind of Bioethics Council Do We Need? / The Battle to Patent Your Genes

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

December 21, 2007

2007 in Review: Reprogramming the Stem Cell Debate

2007 in Review: Googling Your Genes

2007 in Review: Scientific Racism Redux

2007 in Review: Controversy Escalates at California Stem Cell Program

2007 in Review: The Baby Business Makes News

2007 in Review: 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

November 29, 2007

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

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

October 25, 2007

EU exec proposes ban on animal cloning for food

James Watson's Legacy

Nobel Notions and the Uses of Genetics

In-Home Genetic Tests Represent Risk

Food from Cloned Animals

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

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

August 29, 2007

Death in Gene Therapy Experiment Rocks Field

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

Reflections on Repro-Genetics

Do Two Friedman Units Equal One Okarma?

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

Bigger than Dolly?

Synthetic Biology

Prisoners and Clinical Trials

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

Hypertension: What Oprah Doesn't Know

Experts Slam UK Decision to Allow Human-Animal Embryos, Relax Rules

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

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

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

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

December 14, 2006

Year in Review: Public secrets of the assisted reproduction industry (Part 1 of 5)

Year in Review: Race and medicine: Bedfellows again? (Part 2 of 5)

Year in Review: Stem cell politics: Good, bad, ugly (Part 3 of 5)

Year in Review: Research cloning: Next front in the stem cell wars? (Part 4 of 5)

Year in Review: New policies, more controversy on eggs for research (Part 5 of 5)

California's Stem Cell Research Program: An Update

The Latest From Biopolitical Times

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

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

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

September 14, 2006

Stem Cells on Missouri's Ballot: Much Political Ado, Little Policy Meaning

Fake it Til You Make it

Stem Cells in California

After the vote and the veto: Making sense of stem cell politics

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

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

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

Cloning Scientist No Longer Supreme

The Baby Business

Policy Developments on Women's Eggs

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 US researcher's role in cloning fraud

Eggs for research: Endangering women's health?

The World Economic Forum addresses human biotechnologies

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

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

National Council of Churches Approves Policy on New Human Biotechnologies

Eggs vs Ethics in the Stem Cell Debate

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

September 29, 2005

CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: CONTINUING CONTROVERSY

The states and stem cell research

Sports and gene "doping"

THE CENTER IN THE NEWS; NEW CGS STAFF

Mentoring Gender, Selecting Sex

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

LEGISLATIVE UPDATES

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

IN MEMORIUM, MARC LAPPÉ, 1943-2005

CONFUSION IN THE STATES OVER STEM CELLS; FEDERAL ACTION EXPECTED

UK GOVERNMENT REPORT SUPPORTS REPRODUCTIVE CLONING, SEX SELECTION

STEM CELL CONTROVERSIES CONTINUE TO GROW

CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM UNDER FIRE; CRITICS INCLUDE PROP. 71 SUPPORTERS

United Nations calls for Bans on Human Cloning

California Bill To Ban Cloned And Genetically Modified Pets

FoE Condemns Athletic "Gene Doping"

January 24, 2005

MOUNTING CONTROVERSY OVER STEM CELL INSTITUTE IN CALIFORNIA

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

Research cloning, PGD, and nuclear transfer in the United Kingdom

New Zealand Legislation

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

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

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

Report by the President's Council on Bioethics: Reproduction and Responsibility

CGS Report on the new Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act

The Continuing Commercialization of Sex Selection

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

Feburary 17, 2004 - Bulletin: The Korean Cloning Announcement

Key Links and Commentary

In the Wake of the Korean Cloning Announcement: An Analysis

January 13, 2004

TOP TEN DEVELOPMENTS OF 2003

FEATURE: HUMAN-ANIMAL CHIMERAS

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

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

United Nations Postpones Further Discussion on Treaty Banning Human Cloning

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

October 2, 2003

CANADA CONSIDERS COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION ON ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AND CLONING

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

August 20, 2003

Sex Selection Moves to Consumer Culture

MEDIA COVERAGE OF IVF'S 25TH BIRTHDAY

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

TRANSHUMANISM RELOADED

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

LEGISLATIVE BEAT

MEDIA COVERAGE OF DNA AT FIFTY

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

STATE CLONING LEGISLATION

LEGISLATION IN CANADA AND SLOVAKIA

March 25, 2003 - Bulletin: Bill McKibben's new book available now: Enough

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

CHANGES TO CENTER’S WEBSITE

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"

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

November 26, 2002

SUPPORT FOR BANS ON HUMAN CLONING

SUPPORT FOR BANS ON HUMAN GENETIC MODIFICATION

CLONING FIRMS STUMBLE

October 25, 2002

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

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

Other Events and Developments

August 12, 2002

Two Important Events

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) in the News

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

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

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"

March 6, 2002 - Bulletin: Update on Recent Activities of the Center for Genetics and Society

October 3, 2001

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"

August 18, 2001

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

August 2, 2001 - Bulletin: The U.S. Congress Votes on Human Cloning: A Clouded Victory

TWO BILLS: A REAL CLONING BAN AND A BAN THAT ISN'T ONE

Canada Calls for Global Bans on Human Cloning, Germline Modification

UPCOMING EVENTS

HUMAN CLONING UPDATE

"Next Step for Science" and "Shaping Things to Come"

Gerhard Shroder Rejects Human Genetic Manipulation

EVENTS AND RESOURCES

May 9, 2001 - Bulletin: Researchers Claim to Create Genetically Modified Children

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

February 21, 2001

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

January 30, 2001 - Bulletin : No Human Cloning

January 7, 2001

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

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

Embryo Cloning Debate Grows in Europe and UK

New Push for In Utero Gene Transfer

NOT A DESIGNER BABY: Embryo Selection Provides Tissue Match for Sick Sister

October 16, 2000

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

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

UPCOMING EVENTS

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

BREAKING NEWS: Human genome sequencing announcement imminent

A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS

UPCOMING EVENTS

RAND study: "Biotechnology and Global Governance"

NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS

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

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

February 28, 2000

Thanks to signators of the Open Letter

Agenda of the Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference

Annas, Caplan, and Elias criticize Geron's Ethics Advisory Board

Wired Magazine: Prestigious researchers at Extropy Institute conference

NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS

February 4, 2000

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

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

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

October 4, 1999

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

DER SPIEGEL COVER STORY

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS PROMOTING TECHNO-EUGENICS

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OPPOSING TECHNO-EUGENICS

September 10, 1999

WELCOME TO TEEL

UPDATE AND PLANNING MEETING - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Debe prevalecer la bioética en investigación científica

La biotecnología no resuelve desigualdades sociales

La Nueva Eugenesia

El Caso en Contra de la Clonación Reproductiva y la Modificación Genética en Humanos [PDF]

Clonacion Humana, "Un Abuso de Poder"

Clonación Humana: Una Lucha Contra el Tiempo

Lo Que La Modificacion Genetica Humana Significa Para La Mujer

No a la Clonación Humana

Líderes de Salud y Derechos Humanos Solicitan una Prohibición Internacional a la Clonación y a los Procedimientos de Alteración de las Especies

Sobre el Center for Genetics and Society

MANIFIESTO CONTRA LA CLONACION HUMANA, LA MANIPULACION DE LA VIDA Y LA MODIFICACIÓN GENÉTICA DE LA ESPÉCIE HUMANA!

Sobre o Center for Genetics and Society

Citação Selecionadas de Quem Indicando Proibição em Clonagem Humana Reprodutiva e Modificação Genética Hereditária

Justiça Social e as Novas Tecnologias de Genética Humana

Controle Responsável e as Novas Tecnologias de Genética Humana

O Desafio do Limiar das Novas Tecnologias de Genética Humana

Заключение по Калифорнийскому Проекту «Исследование стволовых клеток и лечение ими»

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