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A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money as many of Silicon Valley’s ultra-rich turn their attention to one of the most controversial technologies in medicine.

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A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These conditions are informed by many genetic variants and environmental factors - so...

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Grayscale graphic of Eugenics tree
By Benedict Ipgrave, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Marcy Darnovsky, Subhadra Das, Charlene Galarneau, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Nora Ellen Groce, Tony Platt, Milton Reynolds, Marius Turda, Robert A Wilson, The Lancet | 05.21.2022

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...

Hundred dollar bills
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 05.20.2022

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

The directors of the $12 billion California stem cell agency are looking for a...

Logo of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.20.2022

The fertility watchdog is considering whether to recommend scrapping anonymity for future sperm and egg donors as part of an...

Silhouettes of 4 people layered on the left, chunk of genetic code in between 2 DNA helices overlapping a graphic of Earth
By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.20.2022

Photo by National Human Research Institute on Flickr

Earlier this year, the police in Eugene, Ore., said they had identified...

Doctor speaking to pregnant woman in exam room
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 05.20.2022

Pregnancy, in this age of modern medicine, comes with a series of routinely recommended prenatal tests: At 11 weeks, a...

May centered on Buffalo, NY
By Majua Estevez and Raquel Reichard, Refinery29 | 05.19.2022

Several months before Payton S. Gendron carried out a racist mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, which...

a brown speckled pig in a bucket
By Jonathan Grinstein, Neo.Life | 05.19.2022

The real-life creation of human-animal hybrids, which is on the verge of going from hypothesis to reality, has been the...

Francis Collins
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 05.18.2022

WASHINGTON, DC — In his current role as President Biden’s acting scientific advisor, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, is dealing with...