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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 Editorial, New Scientist | 08.13.2013
THERE'S trouble brewing over stem cells in Texas, and it raises a big question for the future of medicine. How...
By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 08.12.2013
Nestled inside a generic-looking office building here in suburban Maryland, down the hall from cable-provider Comcast, sits the largest blood...
By Quentin Fottrell, The Wall Street Journal | 08.12.2013
We are all Henrietta Lacks. Or, according to privacy experts, we soon could be. Americans are giving their DNA to...
By Peter Hardin and Paul Lombardo, Richmond Times-Dispatch | 08.11.2013
In a landmark action, North Carolina legislators have voted to spend $10 million to compensate men and women sterilized under...
By JoNel Aleccia, NBC News | 08.11.2013
In the 14 years since her daughter, Rachel, was born with Down syndrome, Jawanda Mast has always been clear that...
By Benjamin Fong, The New York Times | 08.11.2013
During my graduate studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia, I spent countless hours in the Burke Library of...
By Simon Roach, The Guardian | 08.10.2013
It's 1998 and science is taking big strides. The first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep, has just had her first...
By Brian Resnick, National Journal | 08.08.2013
You can't patent a piece of the human genome, the Supreme Court declared in a unanimous decision in June...