Society

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

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

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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

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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
A close up of a neuron that has been effected by alzheimers

'It totally backfired': The pitfalls of Alzheimer's genetic testing

By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 04.22.2023

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Genomics
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‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?

By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian | 04.21.2023

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Genetic Selection
drawing of three human figures on pedestals with the one in the middle elevated above the others with a star above its head

Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back

By Paris Marx, Disconnect | 04.21.2023

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Bioethics
A strand of double helix DNA

Widespread Newborn DNA Sequencing Will Worsen Risks to Genetic Privacy

By Crystal Grant, ACLU | 04.19.2023

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Genomics
a blond a pale skin sits in a diaper on the bed in a doctors office. A doctor with only his arm in frame puts a stethoscope to their back.

Duke Has Quietly Discontinued a Costly, Unproven Autism Treatment

By Anna Merlan, Vice | 04.17.2023

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Biotech & Pharma
A magnifying glass revealing the human genome from a DNA sequence

Gene Genies?

By Jane Clinton, Camden New Journal | 04.13.2023

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Genetic Selection
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The Disability Rights Critique of Technologies that Eliminate Human Genetic Variation

By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, ELSIhub | 04.12.2023

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Human Genetic Modification
macaque monkey

Creating and implanting synthetic monkey embryos could pave the way to stem-cell babies

By Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 04.12.2023

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Animal Biotechnologies