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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...

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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...

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

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

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By Stav Dimitropoulos, proto.life | 08.03.2023

Imagine a not-so-distant future, when a 60-year-old man named John Doe goes to the doctor to replace a faulty gene...

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By Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post | 08.02.2023

"Henrietta Lacks historical marker; Clover, VA," by EMW licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 

Like many women, I...

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By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.01.2023

Jason Mast is a former English teacher who now focuses on such things as multimillion-dollar gene therapies and whether they...

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By Max Bayer, Fierce Biotech | 07.31.2023

The FDA's Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., thinks gene editing—specifically base editing—could be a "game changer," but progress has been slow, likely due...

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By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 07.27.2023

Part of the job as a pediatric hematologist for Michael P. Triebwasser, MD, PhD, is to take care of patients...

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By Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian | 07.26.2023

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The Italian parliament has approved a bill criminalising people who go abroad to have...

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By Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie, The Conversation | 07.25.2023

On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the ...

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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...