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 
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Society

Have India’s Poor Become Human Guinea Pigs?

By Sue Lloyd-Roberts, BBC News | 10.31.2012

Drug companies are facing mounting pressure to investigate reports that new medicines are being tested on some of the poorest...

Bioethics

Medical Students’ DNA – and Psychology – on Display in Classroom

By Jessica Cussins | 10.31.2012

In a recent CBS News video segment, Eric E. Schadt, chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences...

Technologies

Genetic Breakthrough at OHSU

By Allison Frost, Oregon Public Radio | 10.29.2012

Oregon Health and Science University scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his team have created a viable embryo with the genetic material...

Genetic Selection

Israeli Start-up Wants to Democratize Creation

By Ben Rooney, The Wall Street Journal (blog) | 10.29.2012
TEL AVIV—Technology is a democratizing force, but a digital start-up here in Israel is taking democracy to a new limit...
Bioethics

Why Cheaper Genetic Testing Could Cost Us a Fortune

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.26.2012
Dana Nieder was at a loss. Doctors had been trying to figure out what was wrong with her daughter Maya...
Biotech & Pharma

Frozen Eggs

By Tom Ashbrook, NPR On Point | 10.26.2012

Women freezing their eggs against future infertility – or, as a lifestyle choice.  We’ll look at the science and its...

Assisted Reproduction

Human Genetic Modification Experiment in Oregon Shows Promise, Risks, Experts Say

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 10.24.2012

Future generations could be stripped of mutations like hereditary blindness or maternal diabetes, after a breakthrough study at Oregon Health...

Other Countries

Geneticists Breach Ethical Taboo By Changing Genes Across Generations

By Rob Stein, NPR | 10.24.2012
Geneticists reported Wednesday that they had crossed a threshold long considered off-limits: They have made changes in human DNA that...
A "Post-Human" Future?