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By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026
Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed | 10.29.2009
Many colleges now require criminal background checks of all new employees. But the University of Akron -- in what some...
By Mark Henderson, The Times (UK) | 10.29.2009
Primitive human sperm and eggs and the germ cells that make them have been created from embryonic stem cells in...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 10.28.2009
In a tacit acknowledgment that the promise of human embryonic stem cells is still far in the future, California’s stem...
By Hyoung-Jin Kim, Associated Press | 10.26.2009
A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and...
By Pete Shanks, GeneWatch (Sep-Oct 2009) | 10.22.2009
Pet cloning is a terrible idea - and, we now know, an extremely unpopular one. Cloning endangered species is equally...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 10.22.2009
Last month marked the tenth anniversary of Jesse Gelsinger's death. While perhaps not quite a household name, Gelsinger is vividly...
By Jesse Reynolds, GeneWatch (Sep-Oct 2009) | 10.22.2009
Despite over a decade of hype, cloning-based stem cell research has offered little in the way of scientific progress. It...
By Jane Kirby, The Independent | 10.22.2009
British scientists believe they will be able to carry out the first-ever successful womb transplant within two years. They have...