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

Report Finds US Slow to Implement Synthetic Biology Policies

By Meredith Wadman, Nature News Blog | 02.08.2012
More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington DC.  But the Woodrow Wilson...
U.S. Federal

Report Finds US Slow to Implement Synthetic Biology Policies

By Meredith Wadman, Nature News Blog | 02.08.2012
More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington DC.  But the Woodrow Wilson...
U.S. Federal

Threatened Fertility: are Fertility Clinic Success Rates Accurate?

By Global News, Global News | 02.08.2012

TORONTO - Many couples struggling with infertility look to fertility-assisted reproductive technologies to conceive a child. When evaluating fertility clinics...

Technologies

Should People Know About the Results of Their Genome Screening?

By Kim Carollo, ABC News | 02.03.2012

If you were at higher risk for developing a condition like Alzheimer's disease or breast cancer, would you want to...

Genomics

Should People Know About the Results of Their Genome Screening?

By Kim Carollo, ABC News | 02.03.2012

If you were at higher risk for developing a condition like Alzheimer's disease or breast cancer, would you want to...

Genomics

Stem Cell Banking: The Newest Lure in Medical Tourism

By Frances Cha, CNN | 02.02.2012
When Min Lee, 54, first toured Seoul's Chaum Life Center -- which is spearheading Korea's stem cell banking industry --...
Biotech & Pharma

Stem Cell Banking: The Newest Lure in Medical Tourism

By Frances Cha, CNN | 02.02.2012
When Min Lee, 54, first toured Seoul's Chaum Life Center -- which is spearheading Korea's stem cell banking industry --...
Biotech & Pharma

Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20

By Tony Dutra, Bloomberg BNA | 02.02.2012
Petitioners challenging the patent eligibility of isolated DNA filed a reply brief Jan. 20, rejecting the respondent patent owner's call...
Biotech & Pharma