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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 Jonathan Basile, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 04.29.2026
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 10.24.2013
For scientist Jack Newman, creating a new life-form has become as simple as this: He types out a DNA sequence...
By Press Association, Press Association | 10.24.2013
More than 1.7 million DNA profiles of innocent adults and children have been deleted from the national database, ministers have...
By Evan Charney, Logos | 10.24.2013
Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber, eds. Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013)
This timely and important...
By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs | 10.24.2013
In May 2010, the richest, most powerful man in biotechnology made a new creature. J. Craig Venter and his private-company...
By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 10.24.2013
I have my parents, and biotechnology, to thank for bringing me into this world; I was an IVF baby...
By Kerri Smith, Nature | 10.23.2013
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated...
By Erik Eckholm, The New York Times | 10.23.2013
JACKSON, Wis. — Alicia Beltran cried with fear and disbelief when county sheriffs surrounded her home on July 18 and...
By Nicolle Strand, The Blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 10.23.2013
Last month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a draft version of its new genomic data sharing policy...