Jessica Cussins

Center for Genetics and Society

Jessica Cussins is a Project Associate at the Center for Genetics and Society, a nonprofit organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies, she is a regular blogger at Biopolitical Times, Psychology Today, and the Huffington Post.

What We Know About Three-Parent In Vitro Fertilization

While there is much enthusiasm surrounding experimental new techniques that aim to help women with severely mutated mitochondrial DNA to have a child that would not inherit the disorders that can be caused by those mutations, the verdict is still out on the procedures. And it doesn't look good.