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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...

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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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Czech Republic: Hard won justice for women survivors of unlawful sterilization

By Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International | 07.22.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

The Czech Senate today finally voted to compensate thousands...

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For Good Science, You Need Engaged Citizens

By Gregory E. Kaebnick, Michael K. Gusmano , Scientific American | 07.22.2021

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

The White House has rehired a climate scientist who was forced out by the...

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21st Century Olympic Doping

By Robin Donovan, NEO.LIFE | 07.22.2021

Photo by Serena Repice Lentini on Unsplash

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finally set to kick off this week...

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In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 07.21.2021

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When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the...

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California Approves Reparations for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

By Mina Kim, KQED Forum | 07.21.2021

In the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other...

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Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know | 07.21.2021

Next week in Rome, world leaders will gather to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the...

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Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

By Erin McCormick, The Guardian | 07.19.2021

It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she...

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Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’

By Mary Papenfuss, Huffpost | 07.16.2021

In a new political low in Texas, the Republican-dominated state Senate has passed a bill to eliminate a...

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