News

Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

HIV t-cell
By Cormac Sheridan, Nature Biotechnology | 10.30.2023

A gene-editing therapy based on CRISPR–Cas9 designed to eliminate HIV-1 infection has rekindled hopes among scientists that it may be...

5 babies in a row
By Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières, Le Monde [cites CGS’ Katie Hasson] | 10.29.2023

Persuadés que notre espèce est en train de disparaître, Malcom et Simone Collins, un couple américain en attente de son...

genes
By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 10.27.2023

Fyodor Urnov, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of genome editing and one of the scientists most invested in...

a person in a lab coat looks through a microscope
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.27.2023

The Japanese biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi said earlier this year that he believes it will be possible to create a human...

a test tube with "DNA TEST" written on it, held by a gloved hand
By Ashley Smart, Undark | 10.27.2023

To Hear Kian Sadeghi tell it, his genetic testing company just might upend health care. The 23-year-old college dropout began...

DNA strand
By Jason Mast , STAT | 10.25.2023

PHILADELPHIA — Cesar de la Fuente believes the next breakthrough antibiotic might come from animals that have been dead for...

IVF test tube and insurance card
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 10.23.2023

Reproductive health experts are updating how they define “infertility” to be more inclusive.

The new definition, issued last week by...

Logo of Verve Therapeutics
By Annalee Armstrong and Max Bayer, Fierce Biotech | 10.23.2023

A nearly year-long clinical hold on Verve Therapeutics’ base editing therapy meant to treat a genetic form of high cholesterol has...