CGS in the News

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

Sunday’s announcement clears the way for a new...

By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

It's a...

By Staff [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], The New York Times Upfront | 02.17.2025

A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...

a graphic featuring test tubes and gametes
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 04.23.2023

Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells – without the need for...

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 woman in a lab coat looks at DNA under a microscope
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.06.2023

Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human...

He Jiankui at his panel in 2018
By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.12.2023

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world by creating the first children with edited genomes, says research must...

Silhouettes of 4 people layered on the left, chunk of genetic code in between 2 DNA helices overlapping a graphic of Earth
By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.20.2022

Photo by National Human Research Institute on Flickr

Earlier this year, the police in Eugene, Ore., said they had identified...

a woman holds up a sign protesting sterilization of women
By Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.03.2022

"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...

4 pregnant women dressed in robes, standing in line; grayscale
By Bianca Facchinei, Newsy [cites CGS' Emily Galpern] | 03.25.2022

Photo by Astaken on Flickr

The war in Ukraine has disrupted trade and threatened the global economy, from oil to...