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40 Years of IVF: What’s Been Overlooked?

By Center for Genetics and Society | 07.10.2018
Press Statement

The first baby born as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) celebrates her 40th birthday on July 25. This is a landmark not only for Louise Brown but also for the millions of others whose lives have been impacted...

Assisted Reproduction

Using 23andMe to Reunite Families at the Border Comes With Serious Privacy Risks

By Tonya Riley, Mother Jones [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.22.2018

Aggregated News

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to administration’s policy of separating families at the border. But the administration hasn’t figured out how to reunite the parents and children that have already been split apart. A day after...

Genomics

Fox Sports and 23andMe rooting for an ancestral goal at the World Cup: What can possibly go wrong?

By Charles Garzon | 06.06.2018
Biopolitical Times

It’s time again for the one sporting event that has literally stopped wars. Beginning on June 14, the World Cup...

Society

Scientists Can Design ‘Better’ Babies. Should They?

By Clyde Haberman, The New York Times [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.10.2018

Aggregated News

For nine frustrating years, Lesley and John Brown tried to conceive a child but failed because of her blocked fallopian...

Technologies

Biopolitical Times

Public and policy makers grow suspicious of genetic testing companies—for good reason

By Adam O'Regan | 07.10.2018

The popularity of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing by companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com has skyrocketed. Meanwhile, so has concern...

Genomics

“Flipping Out” Over Consent and Privacy: When Surrogacy Meets Reality Television

By Alyssa M. Newman, Pop A.R.T. Guest Columnist | 07.09.2018

The explosion of reality television has dramatically altered how we think about celebrities, everyday life, and the boundary between the...

Society

Egg Selling in India

By Diane Beeson, Guest Contributor | 07.02.2018

The stories of women in India who sell their eggs rarely make news. Typically, neither the sellers in these transactions...

Assisted Reproduction

News

The Online Gene Test Finds a Dangerous Mutation. It May Well Be Wrong.

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.02.2018

Dr. Joshua Clayton, a 29-year-old radiology resident at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, wanted to learn about his ancestry. So he sent a sample of his saliva to 23andMe, the genetic testing company.

His report was pretty mundane —...

Genomics

Genealogists Turn to Cousins’ DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases

By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 06.27.2018

When the Golden State Killer case was cracked in April with the help of a genealogist and an open-source ancestry site, many wondered if this was the new frontier of criminal investigations.

This week all signs point to yes.

In...

Genomics

As more women turn to genetic testing for breast cancer, understanding risk is key

By Katherine Drabiak, Washington Post | 06.25.2018

The Food and Drug Administration not long ago announced its authorization that permits genetics testing company 23andMe to market a test for gene mutations associated with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

In response, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki asserted...

Technologies

Family DNA Testing at the Border Would Be an Ethical Quagmire

By Megan Molteni, Wired | 06.22.2018

In the unfolding family separation crisis at the US-Mexico border, one thing has become increasingly clear; the federal government lacks any real plan for reuniting children with their parents.

On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order that would keep...

Genomics

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