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...

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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.

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Society

The Right to Speak Out

By Editorial, Nature | 04.09.2013

What do Adam, Eve and the Queen of Sheba have to do with libel reform? Ask David Balding and Mark...

Biopolitics

Genetics: A Gene of Rare Effect

By Stephen S. Hall, Nature | 04.09.2013
When Sharlayne Tracy showed up at the clinical suite in the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...
Genomics

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

By Pete Shanks, Alternet | 04.08.2013

There's a buzz now around bringing species back from the dead. There's even a spiffy new name for it: "de-extinction."...

Genomics

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

By Zhang Wen, Global Times | 04.07.2013
Despite law enforcers shutting down a surrogacy service in the capital last month, similar agencies are still providing the lucrative...
Other Countries

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.06.2013
The UK is moving closer to three-parent children after the fertility regulator informed the government that the public would back...
Genetic Selection

Powder women's eggs for home storage

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 04.04.2013
JUST add water and sperm – any romance should be provided separately. In future, women who want to safeguard their...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Should researchers pay for women's eggs?

By Ruha Benjamin, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.04.2013
Many critics of the publicly funded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine have fixated on conflicts of interest that plague the...
Human Cloning

As White House Embraces BRAIN Initiative, Questions Linger

By Emily Underwood, ScienceInsider | 04.03.2013

For neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, sitting in an ornate White House chamber yesterday listening to President Barack Obama heap praise—and some...

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