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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...
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...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.21.2011
A trans-Atlantic dispute has opened up between two camps of researchers pursuing a gene that could lead to drugs that...
By Liz Ford, The Guardian (UK) | 09.19.2011
Creating better opportunities for women and girls makes good economic sense and increases development prospects, according to the World Bank's...
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, Montreal Gazette | 09.19.2011
The era of designer babies may be closer than most people think, one of Canada’s leading figures in reproductive medicine...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 09.17.2011
Women inseminated with a donor's sperm used to be advised to tell no one. Go home, doctors said, make love...
By Richard Orange, Telegraph [UK] | 09.16.2011
Ole Schou, Cryos's director, said that there had been a surge in donations in recent years, allowing the facility to...
By Elizabeth Reis, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 09.15.2011
My college-age daughter can earn $50,000-$100,000 just for being smart, beautiful, tall, and a Harvard student. Yes, going to Harvard...
By Ian Sample, Guardian | 09.14.2011
Life forms have been created that carry strands of genetic material designed and built from scratch in the lab, paving...
By Laura Donnelly, Telegraph [UK] | 09.11.2011
Medical staff should be instructed to "withhold information about the sex of the foetus" according to a draft resolution passed...