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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 Jeffrey Rosen, Slate | 03.17.2009
The Case of the Bloody Brick
In March 2003, a drunk in southern England threw a brick off a bridge...
In March 2003, a drunk in southern England threw a brick off a bridge...
By Mark Stencel, Congressional Quarterly | 03.15.2009
Putting limits on some kinds of genetic research has always been a bit like trying to regulate spam. Somehow those...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Riverside Press-Enterprise | 03.14.2009
The recent birth of in vitro fertilized octuplets to Nadya Suleman, a Whittier woman, sent jaws dropping all over the...
By Jesse Reynolds, Bioethics Forum | 03.13.2009
Given the U.S. fertility industry's longstanding resistance to effective oversight, the field's two recent controversies - first octuplets, then an...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 03.11.2009
While praised by scientists, President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research could cause...
By Debbie Strickland, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 03.10.2009
Yesterday President Obama signed an executive order that opened the door to billions of dollars in federal funding for human...
By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed | 03.10.2009
President Obama on Monday made good on his campaign promise to lift the restrictions imposed by President George W. Bush...
By Times of India, Times of India | 03.10.2009
Alarmed by the rise in obesity, researchers are examining the possibility of injecting a gene directly into one of the...