Technologies

Will Putin Prevent Rebrikov from Attempting Heritable Genome Editing?

By Pete Shanks | 10.08.2019
Biopolitical Times
The Russian molecular biologist who wants to edit the genomes of human embryos is getting impatient with authorities who won't yet let him go ahead.
Policies

U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA from Detained Immigrants

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

Aggregated News

The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin collecting genetic data on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities.
Genomics

Despite Calls for a Moratorium, More ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Expected Soon

By Emily Mullin, One Zero | 09.16.2019

Aggregated News

At least 10 babies have been born to apparently infertile women as a result of a controversial in vitro fertilization...

Assisted Reproduction
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INTERVIEW: Inside Dr. Diane Tober’s Research on Egg Donors

By Raquel Cool, We Are Egg Donors | 03.18.2019

Aggregated News

Assisted Reproduction
A family of five silhouetted in front of a sunset.

The Fertility Doctor’s Secret

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.18.2019

Aggregated News

Assisted Reproduction
Photo of He Jiankui in a blue collard shirt who experimented to make CRISPR'd twins who were delivered last November.

Did a Permissive Scientific Culture Encourage the ‘CRISPR babies’ experiment?

By Donna Dickenson, Marcy Darnovsky, Nature Biotechnology | 03.15.2019

CGS-authored

Genomics
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CRISPR Gene Editing: Why We Need Slow Science

By Landon J. Getz and Graham Dellaire, The Conversation | 03.15.2019

Aggregated News

Technologies

Editing genes shouldn’t be too scary — unless they are the ones that get passed to future generations

By Eleanor Feingold, The Conversation | 03.15.2019

Aggregated News

Technologies
Depiction of CRISPR--purple strand of DNA being cut from them middle of two orange strands

Call For Global Moratorium On Creating Gene-Edited Babies

By Rob Stein , National Public Radio [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

Aggregated News

Human Genetic Modification

Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing

By Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg et al., Nature | 03.13.2019

Aggregated News

Human Genetic Modification
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A Step in the Right Direction—But We Can’t Stop Here

By CGS | 03.13.2019
Human Genetic Modification