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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

America: Human and Animal Cloning

Australia: Cloning

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

European Union: Gene Therapy

Highlighted Topics

Biotech & Pharma

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Animal Technologies

Scientists plan human genes for cows, goats

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Hwang Tries for a Comeback

Two More "Lazarus" Projects

Is it right to pay women for their eggs?

Hot Air and Cat Hype

Welcome to the Clone Farm

Hwang is Convicted

Cloning for Kicks

Assisted Reproduction

Fertility drugs on sale in supermarket

Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

New blood test will show women's egg levels: report

Pin the Sperm on the Egg

Symposium: Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century

Test-tube boys may inherit fertility problems

Whither Personal Genomics?

In the womb of controversy

Legal Updates: DNA Databases, Human Gene Patents, Octomom’s Doctor

Commons committee rejects six-year DNA records plan [United Kingdom]

DNA’s Dirty Little Secret

Partial Matches Allowed in New York

New Rule Allows Use of Partial DNA Matches

Judge allows DNA sampling for felony arrestees

Two New Publications from Generations Ahead

From schoolboy squabble to DNA database in one easy step - if you're black

Police making arrests 'just to gather DNA samples' [United Kingdom]

DNA Swab for Your Job

Egg donors could face new restrictions [Arizona]

New blood test will show women's egg levels: report

Young Delhi women donating their eggs for quick bucks

Hwang Tries for a Comeback

Beauty, Brains, and Eggs [Video]

UK Feminist Campaign: No2Eggsploitation

Is it right to pay women for their eggs?

For Sale: Human Eggs Become a Research Commodity

Hwang is Convicted

Women's egg freezing gets boost

Genetic Selection

Gene testing spurs decline of some dire diseases

Eugenics fear as British couples are offered £700 online gene test for 100 inherited diseases

Whither Personal Genomics?

Embryos destroyed for "minor" disorders

Nudging the Discourse?

Demand for 'designer babies' to grow dramatically

IVF websites often mum on embryo gene test risks

GATTACA Comes to Baseball

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis May Pose Neurological Risks

Other uses for laboratory-produced sperm?

Hybrids & Chimeras

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Scientists want debate on animals with human genes

Promises, Promises

The rise and fall of hybrids in the UK

Embryo research driven out of Britain

Strange New World

Human tissue can be taken for human-animal embryo experiments without consent

Would you like them with a mouse?

Transgenic Mice: Human, All Too Human?

A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

Inheritable Genetic Modification

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Technology Updates: Inheritable Genetic Modification

Return of the GenRich?

Monkeys, Mitochondria, and the Human Germline

Michael Sandel on genetics, morality, and a new politics of the common good

New Genetic Therapy [includes audio]

Live mice and sperm - both from stem cells - create new social and ethical challenges

Other uses for laboratory-produced sperm?

Monkey see, monkey glow

Modified Marmoset in the Media

Medical Gene Transfer

'Pain gene' discovery could lead to less suffering

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Gene doping real threat to Olympians

In New Way to Edit DNA, Hope for Treating Disease

Simple gene technique changes sex of a mouse

Is Gene Therapy Finally Ready for Prime Time?

Cautious Optimism about Limited Gene Therapy

Promises, Promises

Seeking justice for my son

The Second Coming of Gene Therapy

Personal genomics

The World’s Most Successful Failure

Eugenics fear as British couples are offered £700 online gene test for 100 inherited diseases

Whither Personal Genomics?

Firm Brings Gene Tests to Masses

Genetic tests give consumers hints about disease risk; critics have misgivings

Cashing in on your genes

This Holiday Season's Genetic and Reproductive Gifts

Google's Guinea Pigs

Firm that led the way in DNA testing goes bust

The $4400 Genome

Reproductive Cloning

The Motherland Needs ... Clones of Me!

Human cloning ban passes Senate [Arizona]

Russian politician says wants to be cloned for nation's sake

Should We Clone Neanderthals?

Cellular reprogramming and bans on reproductive cloning

Cloning for Kicks

Anti-cloning law renewed for 7 years [Israel]

Russia extends human cloning ban

Monkeys, Mitochondria, and the Human Germline

Transhumanist libertarian: Still against democracy

Research Cloning

Korea Closer to Cloning Embryonic Stem Cells

Hwang Tries for a Comeback

Promises, Promises

For Sale: Human Eggs Become a Research Commodity

Hwang is Convicted

Disgraced cloning expert convicted in South Korea

Symbol over Substance

The rise and fall of hybrids in the UK

Good science and good ethics [PDF]

Human tissue can be taken for human-animal embryo experiments without consent

Sequencing & Genomics

DNA Ancestry Testing on TV

'Pain gene' discovery could lead to less suffering

Gene of the week: Entrepreneurship

DNA’s Dirty Little Secret

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Eugenics fear as British couples are offered £700 online gene test for 100 inherited diseases

Two More "Lazarus" Projects

Genetic tests give consumers hints about disease risk; critics have misgivings

Cashing in on your genes

The worldwide war on baby girls

Sex Selection: Tools for Action

Marcy Darnovsky on genetic gender selection [MP3 audio]

Baby gender test after just five weeks is research holy grail

Skewed China birth rate to leave 24 million men single

Sex selection just a mouse click away [India]

Two doctors sent to jail for propagating sex determination tests [India]

Land of the Rising Son

The Gray Areas at the Edges of Regulation

US clinic offers British couples the chance to choose the sex of their child

Stem Cell Research

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Korea Closer to Cloning Embryonic Stem Cells

Hwang Tries for a Comeback

LA Times columnist's concerns over CIRM echo our own

Skin cells turned directly into neurons

Cellular reprogramming and bans on reproductive cloning

California's Proposition 71 Failure

State Stem Cell Funding Possibly In Jeopardy [Connecticut]

Company seeks to test embryonic stem cells for blindness

Stem Cells Falling from Favor

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Gene Patent Challenge Gets Support in the Press

Sex Selection: Tools for Action

Synthetic Biology as Super-Weapon?

Medical groups assail patenting of human genes

Embryos destroyed for "minor" disorders

Cellular reprogramming and bans on reproductive cloning

Legal Updates: DNA Databases, Human Gene Patents, Octomom’s Doctor

Nudging the Discourse?

LA Times columnist's concerns over CIRM echo our own

Legal Updates: DNA Databases, Human Gene Patents, Octomom’s Doctor

California's Proposition 71 Failure

California board accuses octuplets doctor of negligence

Judge allows DNA sampling for felony arrestees

Two New Publications from Generations Ahead

Beauty, Brains, and Eggs [Video]

California Awards Grants for Research Projects in Nonembryonic Stem Cells

ACLU Challenges California Prop. 69

California warning labels: "Donating" eggs may be hazardous to your health

Foundation to aid victims of N.C. eugenics campaign

Egg donors could face new restrictions [Arizona]

Human cloning ban passes Senate [Arizona]

Partial Matches Allowed in New York

Sex Selection: Tools for Action

New Rule Allows Use of Partial DNA Matches

Reparations for Eugenics Victims Stall in North Carolina

Eugenics damages yet to be paid out

State Stem Cell Funding Possibly In Jeopardy [Connecticut]

The United Kingdom

Commons committee rejects six-year DNA records plan [United Kingdom]

Fertility drugs on sale in supermarket

UK Feminist Campaign: No2Eggsploitation

Is it right to pay women for their eggs?

Are UK Cops Pushing People Into the Pool?

From schoolboy squabble to DNA database in one easy step - if you're black

Police making arrests 'just to gather DNA samples' [United Kingdom]

Womb Transplants in Two Years?

The rise and fall of hybrids in the UK

Suspects' DNA data plans changed [UK]

Other Countries

The worldwide war on baby girls

The Motherland Needs ... Clones of Me!

Young Delhi women donating their eggs for quick bucks

In the womb of controversy

Skewed China birth rate to leave 24 million men single

UK Feminist Campaign: No2Eggsploitation

Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

Sex selection just a mouse click away [India]

IP lawyers defend IP

Two doctors sent to jail for propagating sex determination tests [India]

Global Governance

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Gene doping real threat to Olympians

Tackling the International Trafficking of Organs, Tissues and Cells

Global Governance of the New Human Biotechnologies

Study seeks ban on organ trafficking

Gray Goo Hits the Silver Screen

An Emerging Consensus

Will the UN revisit cloning?

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

Patents & Other IP

Myriad speaks out of both sides of its mouth

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Gene Patent Challenge Gets Support in the Press

Medical groups assail patenting of human genes

IP lawyers defend IP

Lawsuit against gene patents can proceed: judge

Battle Over Human Gene Patents Builds

Stakes rise in gene-patenting lawsuit

CGS and other groups file brief in support of challenge to gene patents

Public interest groups support groundbreaking challenge to human gene patents

A "Post-Human" Future?

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Return of the GenRich?

Strange New World

Michael Sandel on genetics, morality, and a new politics of the common good

Transhumanists as Nihilists, Continued

Capitalism 1, Transhumanism 0

Transhumanist libertarian: Still against democracy

Normal, or Better Than Normal - at a High Cost

Normal at Any Cost: A Cautionary Tale

Libertarians Diss Democracy

Strange New World

Michael Jackson, cloning, and assisted reproduction: The trivial and the troubling

GATTACA Framing in the News

Fertility Drug Makes the Big Leagues

Bio-Dad documentary available online

Cloning Keira Knightley

War Against the Weak – The Documentary

This Year’s Stocking Stuffers

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

So you think you own your body?

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Struggling SynBio Gets a Boost

Cellular reprogramming and bans on reproductive cloning

US bioethics commission promises policy action

Hwang is Convicted

Ten Years Later: Jesse Gelsinger’s Death and Human Subjects Protection

Jesse Gelsinger: Ten Years Later

Monkeys, Mitochondria, and the Human Germline

Seeking justice for my son

Biopolitics, Parties & Pundits

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

Biopolitics for the 21st Century

US bioethics commission promises policy action

Promises, Promises

ACLU Challenges California Prop. 69

Michael Sandel on genetics, morality, and a new politics of the common good

Political Science [PDF]

Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells

Beyond stem cells: Public interest group urges strong regulation and oversight of reproductive and genetic biotechnologies

Biotech & Pharma

Myriad speaks out of both sides of its mouth

Gene Patent Challenge Gets Support in the Press

The World’s Most Successful Failure

Eugenics fear as British couples are offered £700 online gene test for 100 inherited diseases

Whither Personal Genomics?

Firm Brings Gene Tests to Masses

Genetic tests give consumers hints about disease risk; critics have misgivings

Struggling SynBio Gets a Boost

Cashing in on your genes

Biopolitics for the 21st Century

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Pin the Sperm on the Egg

Gene Patent Challenge Gets Support in the Press

Medical groups assail patenting of human genes

Technopolitics for the 21st Century: Civil Society Perspectives

Are UK Cops Pushing People Into the Pool?

Genes and Jobs: U of Akron Tests the Testing Laws

Lawsuit against gene patents can proceed: judge

ACLU Challenges California Prop. 69

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Fails a DNA Ancestry Test

Foundation to aid victims of N.C. eugenics campaign

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Gene testing spurs decline of some dire diseases

Eugenics fear as British couples are offered £700 online gene test for 100 inherited diseases

Whither Personal Genomics?

Mom of 9 cries foul

Reparations for Eugenics Victims Stall in North Carolina

Eugenics damages yet to be paid out

DNA Ancestry Testing on TV

Gene of the week: Entrepreneurship

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Pin the Sperm on the Egg

Gene Patent Challenge Gets Support in the Press

Synthetic Biology as Super-Weapon?

LA Times columnist's concerns over CIRM echo our own

Technology Updates: Inheritable Genetic Modification

Nudging the Discourse?

Reparations for Eugenics Victims Stall in North Carolina

Surgeon General’s Warning: Gupta Is At It Again

Transhumanist libertarian: Still against democracy

Public Opinion, Here and Abroad

Couples in US Prefer to Donate Embryos for Research, Study Finds

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

Two New Publications from Generations Ahead

Ted Kennedy: Pro-choice and pro-disability rights

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2008

New Safety, New Concerns In Tests for Down Syndrome

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

Environmentalism

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

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

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Should We Clone Neanderthals?

Judge allows DNA sampling for felony arrestees

Genes and Jobs: U of Akron Tests the Testing Laws

ACLU Challenges California Prop. 69

The Gray Areas at the Edges of Regulation

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

Next Steps for Progressive Stem Cell Politics

New Rule Expands DNA Collection to All People Arrested

European Court Rules Against British DNA Database

Other uses for laboratory-produced sperm?

Will women one day father children?

Fertility clinics to recruit more lesbians as egg donors for IVF

Stripped down embryo bill passes Georgia Senate

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.

Obasogie and Jesudason at "Transforming Race"

Two New Publications from Generations Ahead

Enhancement: From Steroids to Skin Tone

From schoolboy squabble to DNA database in one easy step - if you're black

ACLU Challenges California Prop. 69

Experts condemn asylum DNA tests

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Fails a DNA Ancestry Test

Race and Assisted Reproduction

Catherine Elton on medical "racial profiling"

Why Racial Profiling Persists in Medical Research

Vatican warns of ethical risks with gene progress

Religious leaders confront reproductive technologies

Vatican Ethics Guide Stirs Controversy

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.

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Symposium: Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century

Sex Selection: Tools for Action

Two New Publications from Generations Ahead

UK Feminist Campaign: No2Eggsploitation

Hwang is Convicted

California warning labels: "Donating" eggs may be hazardous to your health

Outsourcing Pregnancy: Surrogacy as "Emotional Labor"

More fraud and scandal in the California fertility industry

Complications of Surrogacy: The Case of Baby Manji

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

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

Who We Are [PDF]

Symposium: Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century

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

Michael J. Sandel

Beyond Bioethics

Genetics and Justice

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies

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

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

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]

Marcy Darnovsky's Publications

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]

Biopolitics for the 21st Century

Letter to the editor regarding "At Birth, Tales of Joy and Heartbreak"

What Kind of Bioethics Council Do We Need?

The Battle to Patent Your Genes

Political Science [PDF]

The Baby Business and Public Policy

Voluntary isn't working

Fertility overload

Marcy Darnovsky in the News

Marcy Darnovsky on genetic gender selection [MP3 audio]

Beauty, Brains, and Eggs [Video]

Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

Fertility doctors tighten guidelines in wake of "octomom" controversy

New Genetic Therapy [includes audio]

Researchers Combine Monkey DNA From Two Mothers in One Egg

The Gene Hunt: Should Finders Be Keepers?

New York OKs paying women who donate eggs for research

Monkey see, monkey glow

The fight for our genes heads to court

Marcy Darnovsky's Blog Posts

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Sex Selection: Tools for Action

Two New Publications from Generations Ahead

UK Feminist Campaign: No2Eggsploitation

Battle Over Human Gene Patents Builds

California warning labels: "Donating" eggs may be hazardous to your health

Outsourcing Pregnancy: Surrogacy as "Emotional Labor"

More fraud and scandal in the California fertility industry

Complications of Surrogacy: The Case of Baby Manji

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

Ten Years Later: Jesse Gelsinger’s Death and Human Subjects Protection

Return of the race myth?

The Color of Our Genes

Playing the Gene Card?

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?

Osagie Obasogie in the News

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

Pin the Sperm on the Egg

Partial Matches Allowed in New York

Legal Updates: DNA Databases, Human Gene Patents, Octomom’s Doctor

Surgeon General’s Warning: Gupta Is At It Again

Enhancement: From Steroids to Skin Tone

Are UK Cops Pushing People Into the Pool?

Womb Transplants in Two Years?

Weighing Clinical Trial Evidence with a Thumb on the Scale?

ACLU Challenges California Prop. 69

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Fails a DNA Ancestry Test

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

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

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

Jesse Reynolds in the News

Good science and good ethics [PDF]

Stem Cell Decision Worries Some Scientists

The Latest on Stem-Cell Research in California [MP3 audio]

Stricter rules on fertility industry debated

"OctoMom" inspires bill to regulate fertility clinics

Politics enters state's stem cell research program

Obama policy a lift for stem cell researchers

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

Jesse Reynolds's Blog Posts

Myriad speaks out of both sides of its mouth

Gene of the week: Entrepreneurship

CGS seeks a summer intern

Obasogie and Jesudason at "Transforming Race"

Symposium: Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century

Gene Patent Challenge Gets Support in the Press

LA Times columnist's concerns over CIRM echo our own

Whither Personal Genomics?

Cellular reprogramming and bans on reproductive cloning

Reparations for Eugenics Victims Stall in North Carolina

Pete Shanks's Blog Posts

DNA Ancestry Testing on TV

The Motherland Needs ... Clones of Me!

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Synthetic Biology as Super-Weapon?

Hwang Tries for a Comeback

Two More "Lazarus" Projects

Looking Back a Decade

Struggling SynBio Gets a Boost

Technology Updates: Inheritable Genetic Modification

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

DNA Ancestry Testing on TV

Myriad speaks out of both sides of its mouth

Gene of the week: Entrepreneurship

CGS seeks a summer intern

The Motherland Needs ... Clones of Me!

Obasogie and Jesudason at "Transforming Race"

Immortal Cells and Persistent Controversies

Pin the Sperm on the Egg

The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals

Public interest groups support groundbreaking challenge to human gene patents

Live mice and sperm - both from stem cells - create new social and ethical challenges

Final federal stem cell rules welcomed by public interest group

Public interest group urges caution in response to genetically modified primates

Federal stem cell guidelines welcomed by public interest group

Beyond stem cells: Public interest group urges strong regulation and oversight of reproductive and genetic biotechnologies

Public interest group responds to postponement of "designer baby" service

Public interest group calls for Congressional hearings on fertility industry

Embryo screening for "complexion" advertised by controversial fertility clinic

Public interest group calls for disciplinary action against octuplets' fertility program

CGS in the News

Marcy Darnovsky on genetic gender selection [MP3 audio]

Beauty, Brains, and Eggs [Video]

Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

Fertility doctors tighten guidelines in wake of "octomom" controversy

Good science and good ethics [PDF]

Stakes rise in gene-patenting lawsuit

New Genetic Therapy [includes audio]

Researchers Combine Monkey DNA From Two Mothers in One Egg

The Gene Hunt: Should Finders Be Keepers?

New York OKs paying women who donate eggs for research

CGS Publications

Reports & Major Articles

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]

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]

Op-eds & Commentary

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World

Biopolitics for the 21st Century

Cloning for Kicks

Symbol over Substance

Ten Years Later: Jesse Gelsinger’s Death and Human Subjects Protection

Monkeys, Mitochondria, and the Human Germline

What Kind of Bioethics Council Do We Need?

The Battle to Patent Your Genes

Return of the race myth?

Political Science [PDF]

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]

Marcy Darnovsky on genetic gender selection [MP3 audio]

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

Beauty, Brains, and Eggs [Video]

New Genetic Therapy [includes audio]

Designer Babies [MP3 audio]

The Latest on Stem-Cell Research in California [MP3 audio]

Custom order babies [Video]

PGD for hair color, eye color, and skin complexion [Video]

Your Own Personal Genomics [MP3 audio]

Special deliveries: Are designer babies arriving? [With video]

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]

2008 Report on Activities [PDF]

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September 18, 2008

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Stem Cell Research in the US Presidential Election

Neo-con Logic: Designer Babies for All

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August 21, 2008

Stem Cell Research and the Presidential Candidates

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney and her Cloned Dog Booger

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The True Believer

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

New Dog Cloning Companies; Old Tricks

Stem cell Roundup

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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

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U.S. Researchers Create Genetically Modified Human Embryo

U.S. set to swell its criminal DNA database

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Sex selection: On sale here

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Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

CGS on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation

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The Many Hats of Robert Klein

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Female Sperm and Gay Guinea Pigs

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PhRMA and BIO Self-Image: Downtrodden and Besieged

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Looking for Donor Dads

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California Stem Cell Research Program Update

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February 7, 2008

Please welcome... Generations Ahead

A new path for stem cell research, without Holy Grails

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Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

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CGS News: 2007 Report on Activities

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December 21, 2007

2007 in Review: Reprogramming the Stem Cell Debate

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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

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November 29, 2007

Beyond the Embryo Fight

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Undue Influence at the Stem Cell Institute

Human Cloning Isn’t Monkey Business

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October 25, 2007

James Watson's Legacy

Nobel Notions and the Uses of Genetics

In-Home Genetic Tests Represent Risk

Food from Cloned Animals

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September 26, 2007

The New CGS Website

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Special Focus: Lessons of the Recent Gene Therapy Death

The Rebirth of a Nation?

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August 29, 2007

Death in Gene Therapy Experiment Rocks Field

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Reflections on Repro-Genetics

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The Case Against Perfection: New Book by Noted Scholar

First U.S. Public Funding of Research Cloning Tainted by Scandal and Questions

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House of Representatives Passes Ban on Genetic Discrimination

Federal Bill to Ban Patents on Human Genes Introduced

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February 28, 2007

Researchers Push for Looser Rules on Procuring Women's Eggs

UK Campaign to Stop Genetically Modified Human Embryos

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios

Bill to End Human Gene Patents Introduced in House

California Stem Cell Update

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January 26, 2007

Important Changes in UK Law on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies

Stem Cell Research in the US

National Council of Churches Adopts Policies on Human Biotechnology

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December 14, 2006

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

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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

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November 15, 2006

Announcing the CGS Blog: Biopolitical Times

New Directions for Stem Cell Politics?

Beyond Bioethics: Groundbreaking Proposal on Human Biotech Policy

Call for Public Comments on UK Eggs-for-Research Policy

Toward Fair Cures: Health Disparities and Stem Cell Research

Eugenics Conference

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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