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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 Fyodor Urnov, The CRIPSR Journal | 10.18.2024

The field of clinical gene editing has a bona fide crisis on its hands—a crisis that has to, and can...

tasmanian tiger
By Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo | 10.18.2024

Colossal Biosciences, a company mainly known for intending to genetically engineer proxies for several iconic extinct species, announced this week...

a skull with technology
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...

Gene editing and scientist
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...

embryo
By Tomoko Otake, The Japan Times | 10.17.2024

Screening embryos during in-vitro fertilization to select those with fewer genetic risks for common diseases and certain physical traits is...

one DNA strand with a check and another with an X
By David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 10.16.2024

An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has...

photo of Giorgia Meloni
By Emma Bubola, The New York Times | 10.16.2024

Photo of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from CPAC 2022 con Hermann Tertsch y Victor Gonzalez by Vox España licensed...