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

Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2012
What are the chances that the prestigious Institute of Medicine will get an objective and balanced view of California’s stem-cell...
Stem Cells

Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2012
What are the chances that the prestigious Institute of Medicine will get an objective and balanced view of California’s stem-cell...
Stem Cells

Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 01.20.2012

The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for...

U.S. States

Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 01.20.2012

The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for...

U.S. States

Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 01.19.2012

That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men...

Genetic Selection

Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 01.19.2012

That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men...

Genetic Selection

S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug

By Associated Foreign Press, Mysinchew.com | 01.19.2012
South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved...
Biotech & Pharma

S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug

By Associated Foreign Press, Mysinchew.com | 01.19.2012
South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved...
Biotech & Pharma