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Assisted Reproduction

Last Second Shot

Global Governance

Last Second Shot

Animal Technologies

Scientists hope to clone extinct species

Cloned animals should not be farmed for food, say consumers

FDA to review genetically engineered farm animals

Canada: Are we already dining on clones?

EU lawmakers call for European ban on cloned meat

Clones' Offspring May Be in Food Supply: FDA

Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost?

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney

Geron, Exeter Affiliates Merge to Create Livestock Cloning Shop

The True Believer

Assisted Reproduction

Reproductive health journal examines new technologies

More birth defects seen with fertility treatment

New test tells women how long to delay having children

Last Second Shot

How ovary transplants 'will let women have babies at any age'

The new fertility treatment that can double a woman's chances of getting pregnant

Kids of sperm donor dads ask Canadian court to stop destruction of records

British Couples 'Choosing Baby Gender' at Clinics Abroad

Scientists Grow Eggs from Five-Year-Old Girls

Putting the Kids on Ice

How ovary transplants 'will let women have babies at any age'

Is Singapore pushing the payment boundary?

The new fertility treatment that can double a woman's chances of getting pregnant

OK to Compensate Egg Donors [Singapore]

Doctor: Potential Egg Donors Face Risks

Scientists Grow Eggs from Five-Year-Old Girls

Putting the Kids on Ice

Stem Cell Promises, Obstacles Remain Four Years After Bill's Approval

How Many Embryos Are Left Over?

Australia Oversees Cloning-based Stem Cell Research

Genetic Selection

Last Second Shot

Sarah Palin, Down syndrome, and the abortion debate

Designer babies: Creating the perfect child

Fresh Hopes and Concerns as Fetal DNA Tests Advance

Finding the Faulty Gene: Embryology Test That Could Kill Off Inherited Illnesses

The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act [PDF]

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Kiwis consider sex selection

Is Sex Necessary for Reproduction?

Dutch Cabinet Crisis Averted... For Now

Hybrids & Chimeras

Britain Approves Use of Hybrid Human-Animal Embryos for Stem Cell Research

Scientists Find Hybrid Embryos Easy to Make

UK's Prime Minister Brown vs. scientists

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

South Korean Parliament Passes Law Banning Type Of Cloning, Broadening Embryonic Stem Cell Research

British Lawmakers Allow Hybrid Human-Animal Embryos

Robert Winston on the UK's fertility bill

Embryo research: a source of hope or horror?

Cloning Alternative May Help Save White Rhino

First British Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos Created by Scientists

Inheritable Genetic Modification

Appleyard on H+

H+ ≈ Humanity+ ≈ Humanity Plus ≈ WTA ≈ Extropy (etc.)

Hank Greely on CGS and Human Genetic Modification

The Vanishing Republican Voter

Neo-con logic: Designer babies for all

All in the Genes

Happy Birthday!

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

Center for American Progress on GM Embryos

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Medical Gene Transfer

Elderly dogs to be offered genetic enhancement to make them young again

Three more blind patients helped by gene therapy

How to Be Popular during the Olympics: Be H. Lee Sweeney, Gene Doping Expert

How "Gene Doping" Could Create Enhanced Olympians

Finding the Golden Genes

Gene Doping Hits the Headlines

German TV Documentary Suggests Genetic Doping is Possible in China

Gene Therapy to Treat Cancer for First Time

Gene Fears by Doping Body

Protecting research subjects from a broken system

Reproductive Cloning

Scientists hope to clone extinct species

Will the UN revisit cloning?

General Assembly ban on all human cloning to be reconsidered by UN ethics panel

Hank Greely on CGS and Human Genetic Modification

Canada: Are we already dining on clones?

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney

Is It Time to Give Up on Therapeutic Cloning? A Q&A with Ian Wilmut

Muslims not prepared to declare cloning 'halal'

Loophole in Embryology Bill could allow cloning without new legislation

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

Research Cloning

OK to Compensate Egg Donors [Singapore]

Will the UN revisit cloning?

How Many Embryos Are Left Over?

Leftover embryo quandaries

Australia Oversees Cloning-based Stem Cell Research

Australia Grants License To Create Cloned Human Embryos

My Body, My Capital?

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells

Disgraced Clone Expert Barred from Work

Sequencing & Genomics

Now: The Rest of the Genome

African, Asian join library of genomics

DeCode's Science Can't Keep the Gene-Finders Solvent

All the President’s Genes?

The Spitterati and Trickle-Down Genomics

Supreme Court to Review DNA Case

Synthetic Biology Debate

Fresh Hopes and Concerns as Fetal DNA Tests Advance

Progress Is Minimal in Clearing DNA Cases

British Couples 'Choosing Baby Gender' at Clinics Abroad

Google, Microsoft pull sex ads after India legal threat

Google India runs ad for illegal baby sex test kit

Girl babies, boy babies, gender expectations

Now, They Go Abroad for Made-to-Order Son

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Sued for Sex Selection Ads in India

Here, Blue Still Wins Over Pink

Public interest groups step up challenges to sex selection in India

[India] Gov't to review implementation of PCPNDT (Sex Selection) Act

Skewed birth ratios raise fears of social crisis in Vietnam

Stem Cell Research

Submitted testimony concerning the California stem cell research program

Moreno to lead bioethics during presidential transition

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

Last Second Shot

Green's surprising turn on stem cells

Stem cells made from brain tissues by Japanese researchers

Keep your eye on the stem cell ball, Part 2

RIP: Stem Cells in Politics (2002-2008)

Michigan Proposal to Expand Stem Cell Research Passes

The Race Card in Michigan

Moreno to lead bioethics during presidential transition

Obama and the New Biopolitical Challenge

Green's surprising turn on stem cells

An Emerging Consensus

New US Law Supports Parents of Children with Disabilities

The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act [PDF]

Third Time a Charm for Stem Cell Bill? Probably Not

New stem cell bill geared toward new administration

A Better Road for Obama on Stem Cells

Beyond Best Practices [PDF]

Submitted testimony concerning the California stem cell research program

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

Stem Cell Promises, Obstacles Remain Four Years After Bill's Approval

California Stem Cell Program to go Under the Microscope

California Licenses 2 Companies to Offer Gene Services

Scientists: Egg Shortage Hurts Stem Cell Research

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

Digging Themselves a Hole

Stem cell lobbyists decide Sen. Sheila Kuehl isn't really craven, ignorant, mindless, and dumb

Letter of support for SB 1565

RIP: Stem Cells in Politics (2002-2008)

Michigan Proposal to Expand Stem Cell Research Passes

The Race Card in Michigan

Another November, Another Stem Cell Ballot Measure

Stem Cell Promises, Obstacles Remain Four Years After Bill's Approval

Bringing in the Heavy Artillery

Eugenics — Again

Cures, jobs, ethics on the line in vote on stem cell research

More From the Los Angeles Times on DNA Databases

New Jersey ends stem cell dreams

The United Kingdom

UK Grants All the Scientists' Wishes

IVF boom: British births top 10,000 in a year for the first time

DNA Databases Run Amok

[United Kingdom] Brown delays embryo bill

Scientists Find Hybrid Embryos Easy to Make

IVF 30 Years On

Loophole in Embryology Bill could allow cloning without new legislation

Cloning the Dead

MPs Reject 'Saviour Sibling' Ban

UK's Prime Minister Brown vs. scientists

Other Countries

Is Singapore pushing the payment boundary?

Kids of sperm donor dads ask Canadian court to stop destruction of records

An Emerging Consensus

OK to Compensate Egg Donors [Singapore]

Britain Approves Use of Hybrid Human-Animal Embryos for Stem Cell Research

OK to Rent Womb in India

Draft law tightens surrogacy norms [India]

Australia Oversees Cloning-based Stem Cell Research

In India, Surrogacy Has Become a Global Business

Surrogacy is soaring in India

Global Governance

An Emerging Consensus

Will the UN revisit cloning?

General Assembly ban on all human cloning to be reconsidered by UN ethics panel

Gene Doping Hits the Headlines

CGS Testifies at First US Congressional Hearing on Global Governance of Human Biotech

Athletes look to genetics to gain the edge

Sperm on the high seas

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

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

Gene Fears by Doping Body

Patents & Other IP

Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

Dog Cloning and Intellectual Property

Unseen Rise of ‘Body Shopping’

Another Bill to Reform the California Stem Cell Research Program

Elimination of conflicts of interest at stem cell institute target of bill

Are male eggs and female sperm on the horizon?

Stem-cell Firms Resisting Cash Lure

WARF and Thomson Go for Patents with New Stem Cell Developments

Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome

A State Bill Passes, a Federal One Stalls

A "Post-Human" Future?

Appleyard on H+

H+ ≈ Humanity+ ≈ Humanity Plus ≈ WTA ≈ Extropy (etc.)

Neo-con logic: Designer babies for all

A Literal Reductionist?

Putting Makeup on a Pig

The Modified Man

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Designing Babies [MP3]

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

Immortality breakthrough! Read all about it!

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

So you think you own your body?

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

Making Waves, Practicing Wisdom

New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic

ColorLines Features Race and Biotech

The Rebirth of a Nation?

WWJD – What Would James (Cameron) Do?

Jesus Family Tomb Believed Found

Moreno to lead bioethics during presidential transition

Last Second Shot

Green's surprising turn on stem cells

The Race Card in Michigan

Mich. Ad Likens Stem-Cell Work to Tuskegee Study

Bioethics for Profit?

Hank Greely on CGS and Human Genetic Modification

All in the Genes

Pap smears or Botox? Cosmetic makeovers and conflicts of interest

Goozner on the FDA and the Declaration of Helsinki

Biopolitics, Parties & Pundits

Moreno to lead bioethics during presidential transition

Obama and the New Biopolitical Challenge

Green's surprising turn on stem cells

RIP: Stem Cells in Politics (2002-2008)

All the President’s Genes?

The Race Card in Michigan

Another November, Another Stem Cell Ballot Measure

Mich. Ad Likens Stem-Cell Work to Tuskegee Study

Science Goes Under the Political Microscope

McCain Equates Embryos and Fetuses in Stem Cell Statement

Biotech & Pharma

Caruso and Darnovsky on Synthetic Biology

The Spitterati and Trickle-Down Genomics

Cash-Poor Biotech Firms Cut Research, Seek Aid

Can DNA Test 'Discover' Your Child's Talents?

NitroMed Sells Off Its Only Product, a Controversial Heart Pill for African Americans

Taking a Peek at the Experts' Genetic Secrets

Genome Database Will Link Genes, Traits in Public View

Biotechs Confront Bankruptcy as Funding Evaporates

Dawn of Low-Price Mapping Could Broaden DNA Uses

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

Conference explores Bay Area's hot new field of synthetic biology

Synthetic Biology Debate

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Genetic Enhancement as Mutually Assured Destruction

Brave New World War

Beyond Bioethics

Center for Food Safety Takes Its Concerns to YouTube

ETC Group Report on Extreme Genetic Engineering

Designer babies: Creating the perfect child

Eugenics Panel Weighs Options for Legislation in 2009 Session

Eugenics — Again

Washington Post on DNA Forensics

DNA Tests Offer Deeper Examination Of Accused

CGS debates libertarian bioethicist Ronald Green

Gene of the Week: the Ruthless Dictator Gene

The Religious Right: Pronatalist? Only if you are white.

2007 in Review: Eugenics: Remembered. Re-imagined. Revived?

When You Play With Dirt, You Get Dirty

Reproductive health journal examines new technologies

Leftover embryo quandaries

The spitterati and trickle-down genomics

In the News This Week

How turn a gene for this into one for that

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

This Week in the News

Washington Post: Inadequate supply of Viking sperm a crisis for successful single women

Cloning Canine Patriotism?

In the News this Week

The More Things Change...

Food from Cloned Animals

Poll: Public understands less about research cloning

Support for stem-cell study falls, poll shows

Spinning the Polls

The Trouble with Tissues

Do stem cells work as a wedge?

Animal and Pet Cloning Opinion Polls

Stem cell bond issue has narrow lead in poll

Calif. voters lean toward stem cell measure-pol

Sarah Palin, Down syndrome, and the abortion debate

New US Law Supports Parents of Children with Disabilities

The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act [PDF]

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Couples Could Win Right to Select Deaf Baby

Is it wrong to select a deaf embryo?

Deaf demand right to designer deaf children

Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin

Disability Rights Advocates Recall US Eugenics in Washington Post Op-Ed

Environmentalism

Caruso and Darnovsky on Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology

ETC Group Report on Extreme Genetic Engineering

Calls for a Moratorium on Food from Cloned Animals

FoE Condemns Athletic "Gene Doping"

Posthuman Enough?

Too Clever Too Fast Too Happy

Bill McKibben in Conversation

Eugenics Panel Weighs Options for Legislation in 2009 Session

Should rich and poor alike be free to sell their kidneys?

Prisoners and Clinical Trials

200 and Counting for the Innocence Project

Prisons: Rehabilitation or Repository?

Toward Fair Cures: Health Disparities and Stem Cell Research

The Future of Violence Against Women

Reproductive Justice for All

UNESCO Declarations, 1998-2005

Homo Genesis [PDF]

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Female sperm and gay guinea pigs

Are male eggs and female sperm on the horizon?

Gay couple buys 'designer' sons from US

Can’t discard them as embryos, abort them as fetuses, or cast them out? Try hormone patches.

LGBT Community Discusses Reproductive and Genetic Technologies

Genetic Technologies and the LGBTQI Community: Myths and Facts

Ethical Issues in New Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

The Race Card in Michigan

NitroMed Sells Off Its Only Product, a Controversial Heart Pill for African Americans

How the (Not so) Mighty Have Fallen

Beyond Best Practices [PDF]

The Ethics of Characterizing Difference: Guiding Principles on Using Racial Categories in Human Genetics

Gene of the Week: American Exceptionalism

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

Heart Drug's Racial Focus Proves a Liability Rather Than an Asset

Muslims not prepared to declare cloning 'halal'

Embryo Bill is Plank of Gordon Brown's Agenda

The Religious Right: Pronatalist? Only if you are white.

Stem-Cell Research

Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin

Embryos injected with animal cells should be given human status, UK bishops urge

Can’t discard them as embryos, abort them as fetuses, or cast them out? Try hormone patches.

WWJD – What Would James (Cameron) Do?

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF]

National Council of Churches Adopts Policies on Human Biotechnology

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Reproductive health journal examines new technologies

Sarah Palin, Down syndrome, and the abortion debate

Doctor: Potential Egg Donors Face Risks

New US Law Supports Parents of Children with Disabilities

The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act [PDF]

OK to Rent Womb in India

Eugenics — Again

Enhancement: Of breasts and bottom lines

Eggs on ice: New profit center for the baby business

My Body, My Capital?

About Generations Ahead

Ralph Brave, 1953-2007

History of the Center for Genetics and Society

Jobs and Internships

Staff areas of expertise

Staff and Fellows

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

Who We Are [PDF]

Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

Michael J. Sandel

Beyond Bioethics

Genetics and Justice

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies

Reception for Publication of "Stem Cells and Public Policy"

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies

Re-Designing Humanity?

Human Plants, Human Harvest

Gender and Justice in the Gene Age [PDF]

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

Richard Hayes's Publications

An Emerging Consensus

The Vanishing Republican Voter

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

Cloning Concerns

Beyond the Embryo Fight

Genetic Differences

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF]

A Majoritarian Proposal for Governing Human Biotechnology

Opinion: A truce in the stem cell wars?

Richard Hayes in the News

Designer babies: Creating the perfect child

The Modified Man

Cloning Critics Split [PDF]

Smarter than thou? Stanford conference ponders a brave new world with machines more powerful than their creators

Assembly committee rejects ban on cloned pets [California]

Pet Clones Spur Call For Limits

Homo Respect-us: The creature genetic engineers fear most

Stem cell measure brings foes together

California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

Richard Hayes's Blog Posts

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

Marcy Darnovsky's Presentations & Talks

Designing Babies [MP3]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky

Which Comes First: The Woman or the Egg?

Democratizing Biopolitics

Stem Cell Politics and Progressive Values

Liberty and Justice in the Gene Age

Democratic Control and the Public Interest in the Stem Cell Debate

Social Justice in the Gene Age: California’s Challenge [PDF]

Playing God: The Challenges of Human Biotechnology for Spiritual Progressives [PDF]

Reclaiming Morality

Marcy Darnovsky's Publications

The Spitterati and Trickle-Down Genomics

All in the Genes

Homo Genesis [PDF]

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics

Crossing An Ethical Boundary

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

Female sperm and gay guinea pigs

Stem-Cell Research

Stem-Cell Science Outruns Political Debate

Marcy Darnovsky in the News

Darnovsky and Chapela discuss synthetic biology [MP3]

Conference explores Bay Area's hot new field of synthetic biology

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

Is Sex Necessary for Reproduction?

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Company offers to clone dogs of highest bidders in auction

Cloning Man's Best Friend: How Far Would You Go to Keep Fido?

The Smiling Heretic

Marcy Darnovsky's Blog Posts

Reproductive health journal examines new technologies

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

Kids of sperm donor dads ask Canadian court to stop destruction of records

Sarah Palin, Down syndrome, and the abortion debate

Synthetic Biology Debate

Leftover embryo quandaries

The spitterati and trickle-down genomics

Neo-con logic: Designer babies for all

Enhancement: Of breasts and bottom lines

Eggs on ice: New profit center for the baby business

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

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

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

Debe prevalecer la bioética en investigación científica

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

Beyond Best Practices [PDF]

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

Food from Cloned Animals

The Rebirth of a Nation?

Picking Nits or Learning Lessons?

Medical Exploitation

Gene Therapy Risky Business for Patients

Prisoners and Clinical Trials

Osagie Obasogie in the News

Death in gene therapy trial raises questions about private IRBs

Mixing animal and human cells gets more exotic

Osagie Obasogie's Blog Posts

Last Second Shot

The Race Card in Michigan

More of the Same

Bringing in the Heavy Artillery

How the (Not so) Mighty Have Fallen

Watch for Falling Prices

More From the Los Angeles Times on DNA Databases

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Goozner on the FDA and the Declaration of Helsinki

Washington Post on DNA Forensics

Jesse Reynolds's Presentations & Talks

Submitted testimony concerning the California stem cell research program

Testimony: Stem Cell Research and Intellectual Property

Jesse Reynolds's Publications

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic

Solution to One Prop. 71 Flaw

Undue Influence at the Stem Cell Institute

In-Home Genetic Tests Represent Risk

Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome

Bigger than Dolly?

Stem Cell Gold Rush

State's stem-cell research needs independent oversight

Opinion: Learning from stem cell stumbles

Jesse Reynolds in the News

McCain Equates Embryos and Fetuses in Stem Cell Statement

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

$271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California

$227 million in grants going to build California stem cell labs

State Probes 6 Online DNA-Testing Firms

Identigene Offers Off-the-Shelf DNA Paternity Test

The Bullet Missed

California Plans for a $750 Million Biotech Bank

Shrink-Wrapped Genes

State Controller Calls for Audit Of Stem Cell Institute's Expenditures

Jesse Reynolds's Blog Posts

Moreno to lead bioethics during presidential transition

Caruso and Darnovsky on Synthetic Biology

Green's surprising turn on stem cells

Is Singapore pushing the payment boundary?

Keep your eye on the stem cell ball, Part 2

RIP: Stem Cells in Politics (2002-2008)

Will the UN revisit cloning?

UK Grants All the Scientists' Wishes

Another November, Another Stem Cell Ballot Measure

Third Time a Charm for Stem Cell Bill? Probably Not

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

Reproductive health journal examines new technologies

Moreno to lead bioethics during presidential transition

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

Last Second Shot

Caruso and Darnovsky on Synthetic Biology

Green's surprising turn on stem cells

Is Singapore pushing the payment boundary?

Kids of sperm donor dads ask Canadian court to stop destruction of records

Sarah Palin, Down syndrome, and the abortion debate

Keep your eye on the stem cell ball, Part 2

Center for Genetics and Society launches online database of human biotechnology policies

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

GINA may encourage problematic direct-to-consumer gene tests

Commercial dog cloning is more than just cute puppies

Public interest group criticizes creation of first genetically modified human embryo

California firm’s cloning results are disturbing; may violate state law

Public interest group calls for CIRM Chair Robert Klein and board member John Reed to step down

Cloning-based stem cell research should be "put on the back burner"

Sea change in cloning-based stem cell research shifts scientific and political debate

Monkey Cloning Raises Troubling Questions Unconnected to the Status of Embryos

CGS in the News

Darnovsky and Chapela discuss synthetic biology [MP3]

Conference explores Bay Area's hot new field of synthetic biology

McCain Equates Embryos and Fetuses in Stem Cell Statement

All in the Genes

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

The Modified Man

Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

Is Sex Necessary for Reproduction?

CGS Publications

Reports & Major Articles

Geneticizing Disease [PDF]

Assisted Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [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]

Sex Selection [PDF]

Gender and Justice in the Gene Age [PDF]

Human Rights in a Post-Human Future [PDF]

Op-eds & Commentary

An Emerging Consensus

The Spitterati and Trickle-Down Genomics

Beyond Best Practices [PDF]

The Vanishing Republican Voter

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

Homo Genesis [PDF]

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics

Crossing An Ethical Boundary

Talks & Testimonies

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]

Which Comes First: The Woman or the Egg?

Darnovsky and Chapela discuss synthetic biology [MP3]

House Approves Genetic Test Law [MP3]

Designing Babies [MP3]

Reproductive Justice: Voices from SisterSong [MP3]

Harvard Prof. Michael Sandel on human genetic modification, Berkeley, California, 7 May 2007 [WMV]

The Egg Trade [MP3]

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

Many Clinics Use Genetic Diagnosis to Choose Sex [offsite]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky by the Women's Bioethics Project [MP3]

Stem Cell Research Bill [MP3]

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]

2007 Report on Activities [PDF]

2006 Annual Report [PDF]

2005 Annual Report [PDF]

2004 Annual Report [PDF]

2003 Annual Report [PDF]

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

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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

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