News

US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’

By Hannah Devlin, Tom Burgis, David Pegg, and Jason Wilson, The Guardian [cites CGS’ Katie Hasson] | 10.18.2024

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...

Genetic Selection

South Africa amended its research guidelines to allow for heritable human genome editing

By Françoise Baylis and Katie Hasson, The Conversation | 10.24.2024

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...

Policies

The New Artificial Intelligentsia

By Ruha Benjamin, Los Angeles Review of Books | 10.18.2024

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...

A "Post-Human" Future?

What Do You Risk With At-Home DNA Test Kits?

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...

Society

2022 Survey of U.S. Sperm Banks

By Donor Conceived Council, DCC USA | 04.22.2022

In March, 2022, U.S. Donor Conceived Council (DCC) surveyed sperm bank websites across the United States to analyze their publicly...

Assisted Reproduction

Leaked reports allege that Penn officials led ‘shameless cover-up’ to protect Gene Therapy Program

By Conor Murray and Pia Singh, The Daily Pennsylvanian | 04.21.2022

Top University officials allegedly manipulated a Perelman School of Medicine investigation into years of workplace abuse allegations within the Gene...

Human Genetic Modification

Cover of the book titled The Genetic Lottery

Why Biology Is Not Destiny

By M.W. Feldman and Jessica Riskin, The New York Review | 04.21.2022

You must know the parable about the frog that sits in a pot of water being gradually heated, allowing itself...

Genomics

FDA Cautions of False Results From Prenatal Genetic Tests

By Staff Reporter, genomeweb | 04.20.2022

NEW YORK – The US Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication on Tuesday, warning people that genetic noninvasive prenatal...

Genomics

Study Raises Questions About Popular Genetic Test for ‘Abnormal’ Embryos

By Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times | 04.20.2022

When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took...

Assisted Reproduction

Genetic Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening Tests May Have False Results

By Safety Communication, FDA | 04.19.2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning patients and health care providers about the risks of false results...

Genetic Selection

Bayer: A history

By GMWatch, GMWatch | 04.19.2022

Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical giant founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and his partner...

U.S. Federal

Athletics, IQ, Health: Three Myths of Race

By Alan Goodman and Joseph L. Graves Jr., Sepiens | 04.14.2022

Our recent book, Racism, Not Race, tackles a big lie: The idea that human beings have biological races.

Biological...

Society