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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 PS, The Copenhagen Post | 03.25.2013
A former sperm donor may have passed on a heritable and treatable cancer-causing illness to half of the children created...
By Rebecca Skloot, The New York Times | 03.23.2013
LAST week, scientists sequenced the genome of cells taken without consent from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She was a...
By Julia Medew, The Age | 03.23.2013
When Sam Everingham employed an Indian surrogate to carry a child for him in 2009, he never imagined losing two...
By David Ehrenfeld, The Guardian | 03.23.2013
I recently spoke at Revive & Restore's TEDx DeExtinction event at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington DC. Most...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 03.22.2013
On Thursday, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommended that doctors tell patients about certain genetic disease risks...
By Melinda Henneberger, The Washington Post | 03.21.2013
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — “Exceptional egg donor needed,” said a recent ad in the Harvard Crimson. The couple looking for that...
By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science Insider | 03.21.2013
Fourteen genetics experts, with the backing of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), are proposing a radical...
By [Letter to the editor], The Times [UK] | 03.20.2013
Sir, We are writing in regard to the HFEA’s recent consultation on what it calls “mitochondrial replacement”, about which we...