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By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026
Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
By Charis Thompson, Ruha Benjamin, Jessica Cussins and Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 05.19.2015
By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 05.18.2015
The debate over human "gene editing" has moved onto the national stage with a prestigious institute announcing it...
By Julia Belluz, Vox | 05.18.2015
Two years ago, scientists quietly developed a technique known as CRISPR/Cas, which allowed them to edit DNA more cheaply, more...
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian | 05.18.2015
The failure by parents to register the majority of children born through surrogacy agreements has created “a ticking legal timebomb”...
By Olivia Gordon, The Telegraph | 05.18.2015
Joanna Rose’s father, if he is still alive, would be perfectly within his rights to refuse to have anything to...
By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 05.18.2015
More than 170 clinics across the country are selling experimental stem cell procedures for dozens of diseases and conditions —...
By Sara Reardon, Nature | 05.18.2015
The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to...
By Anne Schiff, The Jerusalem Post | 05.17.2015
Sometimes it takes a tragedy to draw public attention to otherwise unconsidered problems.
The recent earthquakes in Nepal...