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There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been in vogue for quite a few decades now. While IVF has been hailed as a significant scientific advancement, with many advantages, here are some limitations which bear keeping in mind...

A single cell.
A global business worth billions.
A trade that can bring rewards—or human costs that cannot be measured...

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...

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By David Gilbert, Wired | 10.24.2024

AI-INFUSED SEARCH ENGINES from GoogleMicrosoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race...

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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...

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By Walt Bogdanich and Carson Kessler, The New York Times | 10.23.2024

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the...

CRISPR editing on DNA strand
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 10.22.2024

In an extraordinary 6,000-word guest editorial in the October 2024 issue of The CRISPR Journal (a sister journal of GEN, ...

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By Ruth Retassie, PET | 10.21.2024

Former IVF patients in the USA have filed class action lawsuits against several companies for misleading them about the efficacy...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.21.2024

Kendric Cromer, 12, left Children’s National Hospital in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a T-shirt and cap printed with designs...

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By Nila Bala, Los Angeles Times | 10.21.2024

Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent...

DNA on Money
By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.19.2024

A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive for...