News

This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.29.2026

Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

Human Genetic Modification

Demographic Fears and Far-Right Fantasies

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.26.2026

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

Society

She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled

By Maia Hibbett, Wired | 09.09.2026

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Nihilism of Law-and-Order Politics

By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

U.S. States

Smarter than thou? Stanford conference ponders a brave new world with machines more powerful than their creators

By Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.12.2006
Is technology poised to develop machines that can outsmart their human creators?

And what will happen to mere mortals if...
Human Genetic Modification

The Hwang Saga Continues: A Genetic Crossroads Exclusive

By Pete Shanks, Genetic Crossroads | 05.12.2006
Seoul National University

The downfall of South Korean cloning researcher Hwang Woo-Suk, formerly his country's "supreme scientist," continues to play...

Stem Cells

Liberals and Their Ill-Liberal Policies

By Daniel Callahan, Bioethics Forum | 05.11.2006
I am sometimes baffled by my fellow liberals in their social priorities. Why, for instance, does stem cell research receive...
Biopolitics

Fertility body to allow embryo screening for cancer

By Patricia Reaney, Reuters UK | 05.10.2006
LONDON (Reuters) - The fertility watchdog decided on Wednesday to extend genetic screening of human embryos used in IVF treatments...

Stem-cell Research Blasted from New Angle

By Michelle Chen, The New Standard | 05.08.2006
A new controversy is gripping stem-cell science as California funds efforts with what critics consider little regard for ensuring the...
Fact Sheets

America: Human and Animal Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.08.2006

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

Society

The murky trail of the fertility trade

By Antony Barnett and Helena Smith, The Observer | 05.06.2006
Svetlana has a big family secret: she sold her eggs for US dollars. Svetlana did not tell her husband what...
Assisted Reproduction

Democrats push for stem cell vote in US Senate

By Reuters, Reuters | 05.04.2006


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats sought on Thursday to jump-start a long-awaited debate on legislation to allow federal funding of...

Stem Cells