Society

U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA from Detained Immigrants

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

Aggregated News

The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin collecting genetic data on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities.
Genomics

A New Book Offers an Introduction to the Ethical Dimensions of Germline Gene Editing

By Adam Hayden, Science | 09.30.2019

Aggregated News

With Altered Inheritance, bioethicist Françoise Baylis has authored a vivid call to action that “aims to bridge the divides between theory, science, politics, and practice.”
Human Genetic Modification

It’s Past Time to Compensate Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization

By Emily Galpern | 09.25.2019
Biopolitical Times
Each passing year, more people die who would be eligible for reparations after involuntary sterilization in California.
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Dr. Stuart Newman: “It Seems to Me That We Are Headed for A Techno-Eugenic Future”

By Mohsen Abdelmoumen, American Herald Tribune | 09.05.2019

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Prospective people are not any doctor’s patient, nor are they any future parent’s property to be made to order.
Animal Biotechnologies
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Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

Aggregated News

U.S. Federal
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Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

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Policies
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California-Financed Gene Therapy Scores Historic First Commercial Approval

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 03.26.2026

Aggregated News

Genomics

Serial Entrepreneur and “Frankenstein’s” Ex Launches (Another) New Germline Editing Startup

By Pete Shanks | 03.26.2026
Biopolitical Times
Policies

The Global Economy of Human Eggs: An interview with Diane Tober

By Gabriele Pichlhofer and Tino Plümecke, Guest Contributors | 03.25.2026
Biopolitical Times
Other Countries
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Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part II

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.24.2026

Aggregated News

Bioethics
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Q&A: Embryo editing entrepreneur Cathy Tie closes one startup and begins another in biology’s most taboo frontier

By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 03.24.2026

Aggregated News

Genetic Selection
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Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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Civil Society