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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 Sheila Jasanoff, The Guardian | 04.15.2013
Institutions that play a watchdog role in society offer a persistent challenge for democracy: who shall watch the watchers? We...
By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor, The Feminist Wire | 04.14.2013
Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying to balance...
By John Farrell, Forbes | 04.12.2013
Robert G. Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for co-developing in-vitro fertilization, has died this week. He...
By Jim Thomas, The Guardian [UK] | 04.12.2013
In the constant fight between microbes and people, attempts to rein in the malarial parasite have just taken an interesting...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Karuna Jaggar, Los Angeles Times | 04.12.2013
Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property...
By Lyndsay Buckland, Scotsman | 04.11.2013
GENETIC technologies could be exploited in the future to produce more intelligent, stronger and attractive offspring, with better regulation needed...
By I. Glenn Cohen and Eli Y. Adashi, The New England Journal of Medicine | 04.10.2013
[For original article with footnotes, see here]
Embryo donation (also known as embryo adoption) is the compassionate gifting of...
By Emily Singer, MIT Technology Review | 04.10.2013
For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of spewing out malaria drugs on...