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On January 1st, The New York Times website prominently featured a substantial piece...
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He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who genetically modified human...
Kathryn Paige Harden, Professor of Psychology who leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab at the University of Texas at Austin...
Policies
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, scheduled for March 7-9 in London, has now been postponed to...
What happens when a couple freezes embryos to conceive a baby later, but they get divorced? What if egg and...
The goal was to get rid of the patchwork of different labels for foods and ingredients that have been scientifically...
One year ago this month, a $5.5 billion wave washed over California’s ambitious stem cell agency and left it refreshed...
Society
As the genetic counseling world knows all too well, the New York Times recently published a story about prenatal cfDNA...
On New Year’s Eve California Governor Gavin Newsom announced another important action in the state’s ongoing effort to redress historical...
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A highly regarded scientific journal has retracted a paper based on...
One hundred years ago, the Second International Congress of Eugenics was held from September 22-28, 1921, at the American Museum...
Perspectives
The Center for Genetics and Society mourns the loss of colleague Marsha Saxton, who died December 1, 2021. Marsha was...
The New York Times published an important investigative piece this week, exploring concerns about expanded prenatal genetic screening. Specifically, the...
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No doctor ever counseled Lametra Scott and her husband, Rickey Buggs...
On any given day, CeCe Moore’s inbox is flooded with strangers asking her to solve the mysteries of life and...