PolicyNovember 1, 2017
Revisiting Gattaca in the Era of Trump
What would it mean to embrace new gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 at the very moment white supremacy is, once again, on the rise?
Stories by Osagie K. Obasogie
Osagie K. Obasogie is Haas Distinguished Chair and a professor of bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health and is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Genetics and Society. He is author of "Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind" (Stanford University Press, 2013) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume "Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics" (University of California Press, March 2018).
OpinionOctober 4, 2013
Commentary: The Eugenics Legacy of the Nobelist Who Fathered IVF
An inventor of the technology that led to the first test-tube baby was an active member of Britain’s Eugenics Society