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MUMBRA, India — The afternoon sun shines on the woman in a commuter-town café, highlighting her almond-shaped eyes and pale...
A heart attack patient has become the first person to be treated in a clinical trial of an experimental gene...
Following a long-standing CGS tradition, we present a selection of our favorite Biopolitical Times posts of the past year.
In...
Scientists at UNSW Sydney have developed a new form of CRISPR technology that could make gene therapy safer while also
...Policies
Touchy issues involving accusations that California’s $12 billion gene and stem cell research agency is pushing aside “good science” in...
Dr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet...
An historical poster from 1977 created by Rachael Romero for the
Wilfred Owen Brigade in San Francisco, California. (Library of...
Across the globe, the reliance on assisted reproductive technology (ART) to reproduce is growing. In 2019, the International Committee for...
Society
Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails made available by the Department...
1. The Surrogates
In the delicate jargon of the fertility industry, a woman who carries a child for someone else...
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These are extraordinarily challenging times for university researchers across the United States. After decades of government largess based on the ...
Perspectives
Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, smartest...
On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support...
A growing body of contemporary research and reporting exposes how old ideas can find new life when repurposed within modern...
In her book The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson describes pregnancy as an experience marked by a peculiar duality. On the...