News

US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’

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 questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.

The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing...

Genetic Selection

South Africa amended its research guidelines to allow for heritable human genome editing

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 country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

Policies

The New Artificial Intelligentsia

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...

A "Post-Human" Future?

What Do You Risk With At-Home DNA Test Kits?

By Ashleigh Wyss [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], Listnr | 10.09.2024

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

Society

Secrecy: A demon of gene therapy’s past bedevils its future

By Eric B. Kmiec, Stat | 07.11.2022

Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments. Then it was almost...

Human Genetic Modification

She promised babies at bargain prices using surrogates in Mexico. Now the FBI is investigating

By Emily Baumgaertner , Los Angeles Times | 07.10.2022

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SAN DIEGO — As a single mother in her mid-20s, Lilly Frost was working as...

Assisted Reproduction

Op-Ed: How IVF could be derailed by abortion restrictions

By Lisa C. Ikemoto, Los Angeles Times | 07.07.2022

A few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Boston IVF, a fertility company with centers in six...

Assisted Reproduction

Infertility Patients and Doctors Fear Abortion Bans Could Restrict I.V.F.

By Jan Hoffman, The New York Times | 07.05.2022

Anna Nibley Baker, a mother of four in Salt Lake City, is reasonably certain that she and her husband are...

Assisted Reproduction

Disabled People Never Had Full Autonomy Over Our Reproductive Rights

By Anja Herrman, Teen Vogue | 07.05.2022

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While my generation has, up until now, always had the right to a legal ...

U.S. Federal

Cloned mice created from freeze dried skin cells in world first

By Ian Sample , The Guardian | 07.05.2022

Researchers have created cloned mice from freeze dried skin cells in a world first that aims to help conservationists revive...

Animal Biotechnologies

Eggs and sperm can now be stored for up to 55 years – here’s what that means for donors and people seeking fertility treatment

By Caroline A. B. Redhead, Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Leah Gilman, Lucy Frith, The Conversation | 07.04.2022

The UK government has just extended the period that gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be stored from ten...

Assisted Reproduction

‘Softer’ form of CRISPR may edit genes more accurately

By Carissa Wong, New Scientist | 07.01.2022

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A new form of the genome-editing technique CRISPR could provide a more accurate way to...

Human Genetic Modification