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IN THE Operation Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, 50 wealthy parents were charged with trying to get their children into elite universities through fraudulent means. The story dramatically demonstrated the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure their...

The gene-editing tool CRISPR enabled a groundbreaking new treatment for sickle-cell disease, and in the future, scientists anticipate that it could be used to tackle cancer, forms of inherited blindness, various superbug infections and even HIV...

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

a photo of the Francis Crick Institute
By Françoise Baylis, Impact Ethics | 03.22.2023

photo by Miguel Descart licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

In early March, I was in London, England for the Third...

A pencil with genetic code replacing the wooden shaft of the pencil
By Editorial, The Lancet | 03.18.2023

In 2018, during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, Jiankui He shocked the world by...

IVF with the cells in the embryo in the shape of a question mark
By Natasha Mitchell, ABC [feat. CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies...

A wrench on top of the human genome to symbolize gene editing
By Grace Browne, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis...

A series of red blood cells, some are sickle shaped
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.16.2023

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small wooden cross hanging...

Illustration of scales of justice super-imposed over DNA strand
By Letlhokwa George Mpedi, Daily Maverick | 03.15.2023

In his 2021 novel Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro painted a disturbing picture of a world where...

A series of game pieces all with unique colors
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 03.14.2023

Saying genetics researchers inconsistently and inappropriately use racial and ethnic labels that fail to capture the complex patterns of human...

a person in a blue lab coat looking into a microscope with a bubble to the left with a DNA double helix in it.
By Katie Hunt, CNN | 03.09.2023

For most of her life, Victoria Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Mississippi, had experienced excruciating bouts of pain...