CGS in the News

A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.

The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing...

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

By Ashleigh Wyss [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], Listnr | 10.09.2024

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

hands gloved in green working with pipette and filling tubes
By Rob Stein, Regina G. Barber, Berly McCoy, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.29.2023

In which we meet the pioneers of one of the most exciting — and controversial — fields of biomedical research: ...

5 babies in a row
By Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières, Le Monde [cites CGS’ Katie Hasson] | 10.29.2023

Persuadés que notre espèce est en train de disparaître, Malcom et Simone Collins, un couple américain en attente de son...

a person in a lab coat looks through a microscope
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.27.2023

The Japanese biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi said earlier this year that he believes it will be possible to create a human...

a pink background with a green beaker and a dark green Petri dish with gametes in each
By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.22.2023

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...

animation of a woman workin gin a lab with a graphic of a DNA helix and magnifying glass
By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.24.2023

Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...

globe graphic with Ukraine highlighted in yellow
By Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis and Dmytro Drabyk , Politico [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.23.2023

KYIV, Ukraine  When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...

DNA strand
By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.15.2023

Photo by Sangharsh Lohakare on Unsplash

On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San...

a hand holding a pregnancy test with many other pregnancy tests surrounding it
By Tracy Lowe, Parentology [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 06.21.2023

If you could choose the healthiest embryo to carry so that your future child could avoid deadly diseases, would you...