News

'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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Patents & Other IP

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...

U.S. Federal

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.

This is...

Society

The genetic mistakes that could shape our species

By Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future | 04.12.2021

He Jiankui seemed nervous.

At the time, he was an obscure researcher working at the Southern University of Science and Technology...

Human Genetic Modification
Uyghur Man

AI companies are enabling genocide in China

By Michael Chertoff and N. MacDonnell Ulsch, The Washington Post | 04.12.2021

"Uyghur man" by Evgeni Zotov is
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uyghur people...

Other Countries
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The Egg Hunt

By Katherine Plumhoff, Teen Vogue | 04.09.2021

"Editing or Eggs" by daithifortytwo is
licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The first advertisement was slid under the door of...

Assisted Reproduction
human embryos

Researchers call for greater awareness of unintended consequences of CRISPR gene editing

By The Francis Crick Institute, Press Release | 04.09.2021

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can lead to unintended mutations at the targeted...

Genetic Selection
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We Have “Gifted” Enough: Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Precision Medicine

By Krystal S. Tsosie, Joseph M. Yracheta, Jessica A. Kolopenuk, and Janis Geary, The American Journal of Bioethics | 04.07.2021

Photo by Andrew James on Unsplash

In “Obligations of the ‘Gift’: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Precision Medicine,” Lee (2021...

Society

She Gave Birth To Her Own Children, Then A Michigan Judge Ruled Her To Be A Surrogate

By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law [cites CGS] | 04.07.2021

A lot of surprising things happen when the use of assisted reproductive technology slams up against outdated family law doctrines...

U.S. States
A white doctor

Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race

By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 04.06.2021

Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a disastrous podcast — whose host...

Bioethics
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Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang

By Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker | 04.05.2021

I. HOME

When Anar Sabit was in her twenties and living in Vancouver, she liked to tell her friends that...

Eugenics