CGS in the News
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...
A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited...
A scientist in New York is conducting experiments designed to modify DNA in human embryos as a step toward someday...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is creating a global panel to study human gene editing and the scientific, legal, social...