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

If Your Dog is About to Die, Why Not Clone It?

By Leo Hickman, Guardian | 03.11.2013
Insung Hwang's business, according to his website, is "healing broken hearts". Specifically those of people who have lost a beloved...
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The British Embryo Authority and the Chamber of Eugenics

By Stuart A. Newman, Huffington Post | 03.11.2013
Scene: A laboratory setting. A scientist begins constructing a new individual by combining parts from two different humans. A new...
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Book Review: Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares

By John Galloway, BioNews | 03.11.2013
Perhaps fortuitously, I started to read Maxwell Mehlman's book at the same time as Roy Porter's 'A Short...
Synthetic Biology

Clinic Ships in Eggs From US 'Bank' to Tackle Shortage

By Julia Medew, The Sydney Morning Herald | 03.10.2013
Australians have started paying $19,000 to import eggs from American women under a new deal that will provide hope to...
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California Bill Seeks Pay for Women Who Donate Eggs for Research

By Melody Gutierrez, The Sacramento Bee | 03.10.2013
Five years ago, Alice Crisci froze her eggs, knowing she could be left infertile after chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer...
Biopolitics

Donor Wombs: Giving Women Without Uteruses a Chance to Carry a Baby Stirs Assisted Baby Making Debate

By Sharon Kirkey, Edmonton Journal | 03.10.2013
In a world first attempt to achieve a pregnancy following a womb transplant, doctors in Turkey are preparing to transfer...
Other Countries

Potentially Endless Line of Mice Cloned

By Tanya Lewis, NBC News | 03.08.2013
Watch out, George Lucas, there's a new attack of the clones, and these ones are furry.

Japanese researchers have created...
Human Cloning

Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 03.08.2013
Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of...
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