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Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs, transforming options for creating families

By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.15.2023

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Photo by Sangharsh Lohakare on Unsplash

On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San Francisco Bay, a young man answers the door at a low concrete building.

"I'm Matt Krisiloff. Nice to meet you,"...

Assisted Reproduction

Lessons From A Cloning Scandal

By Pete Shanks | 07.07.2023
Biopolitical Times

Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia

Back in the early years of this century, the most prominent rogue in biotech was a South Korean scientist named Hwang Woo-Suk. He became one of the best-known scientists in the world, and achieved rock-star status in Korea, when he reported his success using human cloning to create embryonic stem cells. Not long thereafter it was revealed that he had faked his results, triggering a new round of global headlines and...

Stem Cells

Human embryo replicas have gotten more complex. Here’s what you need to know

By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.24.2023

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Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...

Assisted Reproduction

Inside a Ukrainian baby factory

By Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis and Dmytro Drabyk , Politico [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.23.2023

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KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...

Other Countries

Biopolitical Times

Ineffective Altruism, Apocalypse, and Human Genetic Enhancement

By Pete Shanks | 07.21.2023

"File:View of Nauru airport.jpg" by Cedric Favero
is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The first part of...

Policies

Lessons From A Cloning Scandal

By Pete Shanks | 07.07.2023

Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia

Back in the early years of this century, the most prominent...

Stem Cells

Lab-made gametes in the clinic: Who would benefit? Who should decide?

By Alana Cattapan, Guest Contributor | 06.19.2023

Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash

This blog post is adapted and expanded from comments Alana Cattapan delivered on the...

Assisted Reproduction

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The Henrietta Lacks settlement is bigger than one family’s victory

By Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post | 08.02.2023

"Henrietta Lacks historical marker; Clover, VA," by EMW licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 

Like many women, I push a tiny pill out of a rectangular pack each day and pop it in my mouth.

For years, I...

Racial Justice

The Gene Therapy 'Quagmire:' Multimillion- Dollar Costs and Untreated Patients with Rare Diseases

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.01.2023

Jason Mast is a former English teacher who now focuses on such things as multimillion-dollar gene therapies and whether they ever reach patients.

Mast writes for STAT, the respected online biomedical news service. On Monday, he encapsulated the “gene therapy...

Stem Cells

Italian parliament approves bill to criminalise surrogacy abroad

By Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian | 07.26.2023

 Photo by aitac on Unsplash

The Italian parliament has approved a bill criminalising people who go abroad to have children via surrogacy, a measure described as “a disgrace”.

The bill, passed in the chamber of deputies with 166 votes...

Policies

Synthetic human embryos could allow for research beyond the 14-day limit, but this raises ethical questions

By Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie, The Conversation | 07.25.2023

On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

This research could increase our understanding of human...

Assisted Reproduction

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