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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 Dita Faulkner, EmpowHER | 06.09.2011
Now this is a unique problem. In some areas, there are more boys being born than girls. For instance, as...
By Times of India, The Times of India | 06.08.2011
Under cultural pressure to have sons, some Indian immigrant women are using reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies in the...
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 06.07.2011
For a state agency that aims to define the term "visionary," the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine — the stem...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Ms. Magazine Blog | 06.06.2011
As best as demographers can figure, the world is short about 160 million girls and women–equivalent to the entire female...
By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 06.05.2011
The days of "sex-selection shops" in India are numbered.
The Union health ministry on Saturday asked Medical Council of India...
The Union health ministry on Saturday asked Medical Council of India...
By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 06.03.2011
The event, on Thursday night at the World Science Festival in Manhattan, was a panel discussion called “Cancer’s Last Stand...
By Peter Foster, The Telegraph [UK] | 06.02.2011
The 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname, "Zheng", confessed to his mother that he had sold the kidney after...
By Barry Stevens, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 06.02.2011
On May 19, 2011, a door opened that has long been closed in North America. The Supreme Court of British...