News

Dawn of the Silicon Valley Superbaby

By Julia Black and Margaux MacColl, The Information [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.19.2024

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they were ready to have children, she’d be willing to conceive using in vitro fertilization. Abraham had lost both his mother...

Genetic Selection

The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics

By Aubrey Clayton, Los Angeles Review of Books | 07.18.2024

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IN 2013, A SERIES of ads about the dangers of teen pregnancy appeared on New York City subway trains. Sponsored by the city’s Human Resources Administration...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Disabled Bodies and Enabling The Creation of The Medical Genetics Profession

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.22.2024

Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...

Genomics

Biopolitical Times on CIRM's 'Depressingly Small Number of Effective Treatments or Cures'

By David Jensen [cites CGS' Pete Shanks], The California Stem Cell Report | 06.24.2024

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The Biopolitical Times reported this month that the California stem cell and gene...

Stem Cells

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A pill to treat sickle cell disease? Compound that activates fetal gene raises new hope

By Robert F. Service, Science | 07.04.2024

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Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapy procedures...

Human Genetic Modification

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Court orders Japanese government to pay damages over forced sterilisations

By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 07.03.2024

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Japan’s supreme...

Society

Surrogacy money scandal leaves parents-to-be in limbo nightmare

By Gilma Avalos, NBC | 07.03.2024

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The dream of becoming parents is turning into a nightmare for hundreds of people...

U.S. Federal

A Retracted Stem Cell Study Reveals Science’s Shortcomings

By Peter Aldhous, Scientific American | 07.02.2024

In June a notice posted on the website of the journal Nature set a new scientific record. It withdrew what...

Human Genetic Modification

With its 'Chevron' ruling, the Supreme Court claims to be smarter than scientific experts

By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times | 07.02.2024

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Second only to the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday on when presidents are immune from...

U.S. Federal

IVF in the USA: A political dance

By Sonia Suter and Naomi Cahn, PET | 07.01.2024

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Since the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade (see BioNews ...

Assisted Reproduction

Lung Institute found guilty of selling patients 'sham' stem cell treatment for incurable lung disease

By Katie LaGrone, WPTV | 06.28.2024

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TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa jury recently found the now-defunct Lung Institute in...

U.S. Federal

‘Epigenome editor’ silences gene that causes deadly brain disorders

By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 06.27.2024

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A molecular-editing tool that’s small enough to be delivered to the brain shuts down...

Human Genetic Modification