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

Myriad Updates: Clinical Data as Trade Secrets and a Pending Certiorari Decision

By Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 11.28.2012
Earlier this month, my colleagues John Conley, Robert Cook-Deegan, James Evans and I published a policy article in the European...
Genomics

Doctors Guilty in Stem Cell Fraud Case

By Nathan Baca, KLAS-TV Las Vegas | 11.28.2012
LAS VEGAS -- Dr. Ralph Conti and Alfred Sapse were found guilty on all counts in federal court Wednesday of...
Biotech & Pharma

Selecting Against Disease

By Urmila Ramakrishnan, Fin Magazine | 11.26.2012
Although we may not have control over the end of the world, genetic counseling and selection will give us power...
Genomics

Rights to Maternity Leave Granted to Parents Through Surrogacy

By Sarah Guy, BioNews | 11.26.2012

The right to maternity leave in the UK will be extended to parents of children born through surrogacy, under proposed...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Fertility Treatment Waiting Times Halve After Increased Payments to Donors

By Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph (UK) | 11.26.2012
Many couples were faced with waits or two or more years with hundreds forced abroad for expensive and risky treatment...
Bioethics

Girls R Us: Sex Selection, Sound Bites and Weak Data

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.21.2012
I finally got around to reading Hanna Rosin’s article, “The End of Men,” which ran in the Atlantic...
Technologies

The Million Veteran Program: Building VA’s Mega-Database for Genomic Medicine

By Joel Kupersmith and Timothy O'Leary, Health Affairs | 11.19.2012

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick (and Wilkins) being named Nobel Prize recipients for discovering DNA...

Genomics

An Ethics Debate Over Embryos on the Cheap

By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 11.19.2012
Dr. Ernest Zeringue was looking for a niche in the cutthroat industry of fertility treatments.

He seized on price, a...
Bioethics