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accountable to the state's legislature and the public. It submitted invited testimony to the "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy in 2008 and to the Institute of Medicine Committee in 2012, focusing on the conflicts of interest built into the agency's
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CGS organizes and presents at key conferences and symposiums on national and international biopolitical issues; conducts briefings for interest groups and elected officials; engages in selected policy interventions; and has a media presence that includes publications, a blog, and social media.
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CGS has engaged with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.K. Department of Health and Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority over proposals for human trials of a procedure that would produce inheritable genetic modifications, so-called "three-person
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funded by individual contributions and philanthropic foundations. CGS receives support from private donors and foundations and trusts, including the Appleton Foundation; Lyman B. Brainerd, Jr. Family Foundation, and the
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CGS supported the 2006 bill SB 1260, which ensures that women in California who provide eggs for private research are accorded all established federal and state protections for
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The Center for Genetics and Society was founded in October 2001 under the leadership of
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CGS filed several amicus briefs in the lawsuit against Myriad Genetics concerning its
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effort to propose an international treaty prohibiting human reproductive cloning.
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It helped defeat the 2013 bill AB 926, which would have removed these provisions.
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patents. In June 2013, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that
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making a difference" by the Women's Bioethics Project.
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CGS was involved in the early stages of the 2000–2005
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In 2005, CGS received a "Local Heroes" award from the
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