In the News this Week
Posted by Marcy Darnovsky July 4, 2008
Biopolitical Times
- A US congressional subcommittee held a hearing on the need for international agreements regulating human biotechnologies; CGS's Richard Hayes and others testified.
- The world sports anti-doping watchdog is on the lookout for new high-tech doping techniques that could be used by cheats at the Beijing Olympics.
- Concerned with the increasing number of foreigners coming to India to rent a womb, the government is planning regulations to ensure legal and medical rights to surrogate mothers and children born to them.
- Eight months after state officials broke ground on New Jersey's new center for stem cell research, the once-heralded $150 million project has quietly been put on indefinite hold.
- The number of girls born and surviving in India has hit an all-time low compared to boys, ActionAid says.