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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 David Shukman, BBC News | 01.13.2014
You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in rolling hills in...
By Stewart Brand, e360 | 01.13.2014
Sequenceable DNA can be recovered from museum specimens and some fossils of extinct species. That discovery in the 1980s set...
By Paul R. Ehrlich, e360 | 01.13.2014
Wouldn’t it be great to have vast herds of mammoths roaming the Canadian tundra, or a thrill to see flocks...
By Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 01.13.2014
IT'S 2008. The New Yorker is chronicling a celebrity "spit party", at which notables – nicknamed the "Spitterati" – eject...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.13.2014
Here comes genomics, Take 2.
Pharmaceutical companies invested heavily in genetic studies in the frenzy after the sequencing of the...
Pharmaceutical companies invested heavily in genetic studies in the frenzy after the sequencing of the...
By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 01.11.2014
It sounded like a miracle of science and convenience: swab your cheek and drop the saliva sample in the mailbox...
By The Link, The Link | 01.11.2014
VANCOUVER – Community and health leaders are calling for an open dialogue about the cultural values that lead to sex...
By Tim Franks, BBC News | 01.11.2014
This could be a battle like no other in sport. The authorities are so concerned, they have been preparing for...