CGS in the News
As morbid as it sounds, life insurance companies want to know how long you’ll be around, and figuring that out...
While it’s fun to submit DNA to a testing service to learn you might be 10 percent Nigerian, Norwegian, or...
When you submit your DNA to a personal genomics company like Ancestry or 23andme, you’re not just uncovering secrets about...
Scientists first developed gene therapy techniques in the 1990s, exploring ways to treat disease by modifying malfunctioning cells. In 1997...
Researchers at Columbia University in New York have created embryos containing genetic material from three people and are ready to...
Oh baby!
A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...
Analyzing and indefinitely keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of Californians arrested for felonies, but never charged with a crime...
A group of 18 prominent scientists—including some who helped develop CRISPR–Cas9, the current leading tool for gene editing—issued a call...