News

The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.

His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new...

Genetic Selection

Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals: Why We Shouldn’t Trust the Pronatalist Movement

By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump administration to help encourage women to have more children.

Besides falling short of ensuring that people have what they need...

Human Genetic Modification

We Don’t Know if the Babies Born From Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Will Still Develop Mitochondrial Disease

By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Assisted Reproduction

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...

Genetic Selection

Plan to merge labs for biofuel research criticized

By David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.29.2012

(03-30) 16:02 PDT RICHMOND -- A plan by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to merge its energy labs into a major new...

Fact Sheets

Canadian women richly rewarded for donating eggs

By CTVNews.ca Staff, CTV News | 03.27.2012
For the last eight years, it's been illegal in Canada to pay for human eggs or sperm. But the practice...
Other Countries

Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

By Emily Smith Beitiks, San Jose Mercury News | 03.27.2012

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently announced a proposal to build a facility in Richmond at which synthetic biology research will...

Synthetic Biology

Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

By Emily Smith Beitiks, San Jose Mercury News | 03.27.2012
This article is available at the San Jose Mercury News.
Synthetic Biology

UPDATE: US High Court Orders New Look At Myriad Gene Patents

By Brent Kendall, Wall Street Journal | 03.26.2012
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered an appeals court to take a new look at a lawsuit...
Patents & Other IP

Could SCOTUS Prometheus ruling be the end of human gene patents?

By Terry Baynes, Thomason Reuters News & Insights | 03.21.2012
The Mayo Clinic and its lawyers at Mayer Brown weren't the only ones to welcome the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling...
Patents & Other IP

Court Throws Out Prometheus Drug Patent

By Jesse Holland, Business Week | 03.20.2012
The Supreme Court unanimously tossed out medical patent claims for Prometheus Laboratories on Tuesday for a test that could help...
Biotech & Pharma

In Vitro Babies Denied U.S. Citizenship

By Michele Chabin, USA Today | 03.19.2012

JERUSALEM – Chicago native Ellie Lavi could not have been happier when she gave birth to beautiful twin girls overseas...

Assisted Reproduction