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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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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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By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court ruled that human genes could not be patented, several laboratories announced they, too, would...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.13.2013
Legislation that would permit women in California to be paid for their eggs for scientific research yesterday cleared a key...
By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies Our Blog | 06.13.2013
The process of in vitro fertilization – in which embryos are created outside a woman’s body and then implanted in...
By Adam Liptak, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
WASHINGTON — Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The case concerned patents...
By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 06.12.2013
Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into...
By Steven E. Brenner, Nature | 06.12.2013
Most people in the United States could soon know someone whose genome is held in a research database. Concerns are...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Alexandra Minna Stern, The Wall Street Journal | 06.12.2013

Four million American women are expecting a child this year, and many of them will encounter something entirely new in...

By Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Rori V. Rohlfs, and Stephanie M. Fullerton, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributors | 06.11.2013

A shorter version of this was published in Nature Reviews Genetics [abstract].

In July 2010, California police used...