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

A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells

By Henry Fountain, New York Times | 09.15.2012

STOCKHOLM — Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the...

Stem Cells

How To Buy a Daughter: Choosing the sex of your baby has become a multimillion-dollar industry

By Jasmeet Sidhu, Slate | 09.14.2012

Megan Simpson always expected that she would be a mother to a daughter.

She had grown up in a family...

Assisted Reproduction

Potential Perils of DIY Genetic Testing

By Anna Salleh, ABC News | 09.11.2012

Being told you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism could make you feel you have less control over your drinking...

Other Countries

Most of What you Read was Wrong: How Press Releases Rewrote Scientific History

By John Timmer, ARS Technica | 09.10.2012

This week, the ENCODE project released the results of its latest attempt to catalog all the activities associated with the...

Media Coverage

Science, Standards and Forensics: Part III

By Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post | 09.09.2012
After his 28 years in prison, freed by DNA tests, Donald Eugene Gates reflected on the difficulty of adjusting to...
U.S. States

Is Costa Rica Violating Human Rights by Banning In Vitro Fertilization?

By Matt Levin, Tico Times | 09.07.2012
Miguel Mejía faced the judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Wednesday in San José. In a wheelchair, he...
Bioethics

US Stem Cell Scientist Punished for Fraud

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.07.2012
Stem cell research fraud continues, though not as spectacularly as in the lab of disgraced South Korean Hwang Woo-suk. A...
Stem Cells

Sperm Precursor Cells Created in Lab

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.07.2012

The moment when scientists will be able to create artificial sperm from a skin cell is drawing closer. Scientists at...

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