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

What’s next for lab-grown human embryos?

By Kendall Powell, Nature | 08.31.2021

It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he had an agonizing task ahead...

Animal Biotechnologies

New gene therapies may soon treat dozens of rare diseases, but million-dollar price tags will put them out of reach for many

By Kevin Doxzen, The Conversation | 08.31.2021

Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay...

Human Genetic Modification

Rogue Stem Cell Clinics, CIRM and the Feds

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.31.2021

The California stem cell agency has posted a bit of a roundup on the state of regulatory affairs concerning what...

Stem Cells

13X Paralympic Medalist from Team USA, Tatyana McFadden

Strides made but stigmas remain: Japan hesitant in embracing Paralympics

By Gavin Blair, The Guardian | 08.30.2021

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Public Opinion

Japan to allow wider preimplantation genetic testing of eggs in IVF

By Mie Sakamoto, Kyodo News | 08.29.2021

Testing of fertilized eggs during in-vitro fertilization treatment to identify genetic diseases before pregnancy will be expanded to cover conditions...

Assisted Reproduction