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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 TechEye, TechEye | 04.25.2013
Dr Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, warned at a MedConfidential event in London that beyond electronically storing...
By Adam Tanner, Forbes | 04.25.2013
A Harvard professor has re-identified the names of more than 40% of a sample of anonymous participants in a high-profile...
By Caroline Wright, Genomes Unzipped | 04.25.2013
By now, we’re probably all familiar with Niels Bohr’s famous quote that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the...
By Ari Schulman, The American Conservative | 04.25.2013
One might think that if someone ever figured out how to create a mind—if the secret of human thought were...
By Sean Coughlan, BBC News | 04.25.2013
What are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction?
An international...
By Carl Elliott, Bioethics Forum | 04.24.2013
Over the past month, a petition asking the governor of Minnesota to investigate a research scandal at the University of...
By Dan Hurley, Discover | 04.23.2013
Darwin and Freud walk into a bar. Two alcoholic mice — a mother and her son — sit on two...
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2013
Earlier this year Illumina, the maker of the world’s most widely used DNA sequencing machines, agreed to pay nearly half...