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By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026
Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
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 Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Rori V. Rohlfs, and Stephanie M. Fullerton, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributors
| 06.11.2013
A shorter version of this was published in Nature Reviews Genetics [abstract].
In July 2010, California police used...
By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones | 06.10.2013
If you're like me, the concept of synthetic biology—the application of engineering techniques to the building blocks of life—is...
By Jason Overdorf, Global Post | 06.10.2013
NEW DELHI, India — The revelation that a convicted sex offender from Israel succeeded years ago in hiring a surrogate...
By Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian | 06.08.2013
In the almost year-long lead-up to having my whole genome sequenced, I have no fears about it. Or at least...
By Jamie Rappaport Clark, Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There has been a lot of talk in the scientific community and the media recently about the idea of "de-extinction;"...
By L. Jim Thomas, The Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There is less than a day to go before the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com hands hundreds of thousands of dollars...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 06.05.2013
One of the many ways in which humans' evolved characteristics clash with a fast-changing post-industrial society can be seen in...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.05.2013
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced...