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

Treatment for Blood Disease Is Gene Therapy Landmark

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.10.2011
Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting...
Human Genetic Modification

Treatment for Blood Disease Is Gene Therapy Landmark

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.10.2011
Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting...
Human Genetic Modification

Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution

By Kim Severson, New York Times | 12.09.2011
LINWOOD, N.C. — Charles Holt, 62, spreads a cache of vintage government records across his trailer floor. They are the...
Disability Rights

Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution

By Kim Severson, New York Times | 12.09.2011
LINWOOD, N.C. — Charles Holt, 62, spreads a cache of vintage government records across his trailer floor. They are the...
Disability Rights

Hoping for Cures, Supporters May Back Another Ballot Measure for Stem Cell Agency

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 12.08.2011
Touted seven years ago as a way to develop "breakthrough cures" for an array of life-threatening ailments, California's $3 billion...
Biotech & Pharma

Hoping for Cures, Supporters May Back Another Ballot Measure for Stem Cell Agency

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 12.08.2011
Touted seven years ago as a way to develop "breakthrough cures" for an array of life-threatening ailments, California's $3 billion...
Biotech & Pharma

Gene Patent Stoush Heads to US Court

By Karen Barlow, ABC News [Australia] | 12.08.2011

The fight over human genes and whether they can be patented for medical research has gone to the US Supreme...

Patents & Other IP

Gene Patent Stoush Heads to US Court

By Karen Barlow, ABC News [Australia] | 12.08.2011

The fight over human genes and whether they can be patented for medical research has gone to the US Supreme...

Patents & Other IP