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'Superbabies' Startup Seeks Funds for Controversial Gene Editing Push

By Sophie Alexander and Ike Swetlitz, Bloomberg | 06.25.2025

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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Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they?

By Brittany Luse, Liam McBain, and Neena Pathak, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.28.2025

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...

Genetic Selection

Why Deleting Your 23andMe Data Is a Political Imperative

By Katie Sagaser, The DNA Exchange | 05.27.2025

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this piece are solely my own and do not represent those of my...

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Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests

By Pepper Stetler, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.08.2025

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge" by Michael Vadon 
is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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‘Our Father’ TV Review: Sins of the Doctor

By John Anderson, The Wall Street Journal | 05.10.2022

“Our Father,” Netflix.

A horror story presented as too much of a horror movie, “Our Father” features interviews with the...

Assisted Reproduction
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Colorado will ensure people conceived through egg or sperm donation can find their donors in the future

By Bente Birkeland, CPR News | 05.10.2022

Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

Starting in 2025, Colorado will no longer allow anonymous sperm and egg donations, under...

Policies
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Questions raised by the draft US Supreme Court decision on abortion

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 05.10.2022

What will it mean for me if my state considers my embryo a "person"?

If my state considers an embryo...

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Base editing marches on the clinic

By Michael Eisenstein , Nature | 05.09.2022

Two companies, Beam Therapeutics and Verve Therapeutics, are leading the charge of base editing therapies to the clinic. Last November...

Human Genetic Modification
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Human genetic engineering is coming. We must discuss the social and political implications now

By Samira Kiani, The Globe and Mail | 05.06.2022

photo by the He Lab

In October, 2018, I was invited to a secret meeting in Guangzhou, China. I was...

Bioethics
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Putting an End to Heart Attacks by Editing Human DNA

By Angelica Peebles, Bloomberg | 05.06.2022

Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator,
CC BY 2.5 >, via Wikimedia Commons

Even after decades of drug breakthroughs aimed at...

Society
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New York court halts family DNA searches for crime suspects

By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press | 05.06.2022

A New York court halted the use of a DNA crimefighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put...

Policies
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‘Medical tourists’ are travelling the world in search of the elixir of life

By Peter Ward, The Guardian | 05.05.2022

Photo by Jernej Furman on Flickr

Every year millions of people cross borders to undergo medical treatments that are either...

Human Genetic Modification