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...

U.S. Federal

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

Inside China’s Genome Factory

By Christina Larson, MIT Technology Review | 02.11.2013
When he was 17 years old, Zhao Bowen dropped out of Beijing’s most prestigious high school. Like many restless young...
Other Countries

Horror in a Mass Sterilization Camp: Unconscious Indian Women Were Dumped in a Field After Undergoing a Painful Sterilization Operation

By Carol Kuruvilla, New York Daily News | 02.07.2013
Hospital staff at a mass sterilization camp in West Bengal dumped more than 100 women in a field to recover...
Bioethics

Did Sperm and Egg Donors Unwittingly Contribute to NIH-Approved Stem Cells?

By Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider | 02.07.2013
A review of the 200 or so human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines approved by the National Institutes of Health...
Assisted Reproduction

New Study Finds Number of Multiple Births Affected by Congenital Anomalies has Doubled in the Last 30 Years

By BJOG, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 02.06.2013

The number of congenital anomalies, or birth defects, arising from multiple births has almost doubled since the 1980s, suggests a...

Assisted Reproduction

Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy

By Advocates for Informed Choice, Advocates for Informed Choice | 02.06.2013

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) has just issued a statement calling for an end to...

Bioethics

Eugenics Compensation Bill Sidelined in Va. House

By Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot | 02.05.2013
A bipartisan proposal to compensate Virginians who were involuntarily sterilized during the eugenics era is going nowhere, sidelined by its...
Bioethics

Scientists Use 3-D Printer to Speed Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American | 02.04.2013
Every week, it seems, there’s a new breakthrough in 3-D printing that promises us the ability to (eventually) fabricate some...
Stem Cells

Arrivederci, GINA

By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.04.2013

Yaniv Erlich, Ph.D., and his research team at the Whitehead Institute hoped to start a conversation when they published their...

Genomics