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

NIH Announces Database for Genetic Test Information

By Susan Young, Nature News Blog | 02.29.2012
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled its Genetic Testing Registry, a  database of  information on genetic tests...
U.S. Federal

Convicted Surrogacy Attorney: I'm Tip of Iceberg

By Rory Devine and R. Stickney, NBC San Diego | 02.29.2012
The woman convicted and sentenced for her role in a baby-selling ring said there need to be changes in the...
Assisted Reproduction

Convicted Surrogacy Attorney: I'm Tip of Iceberg

By Rory Devine and R. Stickney, NBC San Diego | 02.29.2012
The woman convicted and sentenced for her role in a baby-selling ring said there need to be changes in the...
Assisted Reproduction

Should You Be Able to Clone Your Pet?

By Pete Shanks, Junior Scholastic | 02.27.2012

Thanks to advances in technology, scientists can extract cells from an animal and implant them into a surrogate mother. If...

Animal Biotechnologies

'Am I My Genes?': Fate, Family And Genetic Testing

By NPR Staff, National Public Radio | 02.27.2012

Advances in genetic testing have improved the prediction, diagnosis and treatment of disease. But having increased information about your genetic...

Genomics

'Am I My Genes?': Fate, Family And Genetic Testing

By NPR Staff, National Public Radio | 02.27.2012

Advances in genetic testing have improved the prediction, diagnosis and treatment of disease. But having increased information about your genetic...

Genomics

Surrogacy Under Scrutiny

By Wang Hairong, Bejing Review | 02.27.2012

With its soft pink background and the picture of a happy, healthy baby, at first sight, Ymdaiyun.com looks no different...

Other Countries

Ogden Family at Center of Ethics Debate in Genetics Research

By Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune | 02.27.2012

By the time Camilla Black Grondahl became pregnant with her second child in 2010, she had already watched two older...

Genomics