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

Letter to the Editor: Stem Cell Politics

By Richard Hayes, New York Times | 05.01.2006

To the Editor:

Re "Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells" (news article, April 24):

I'm a lifelong Democrat...

Biopolitics

Beyond Embryo Politics

By Emily Galpern, The Women's Health Activist: Newsletter of the National Women's Health Network | 04.30.2006

May / June 2006

"Which comes first-the egg or the cure?" asks an advertisement enticing young women to provide their...

Human Cloning

Picking Up the Pieces After Hwang

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 04.28.2006

A year ago, it seemed so easy. In May 2005, Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues told the world that...

Human Cloning

Picking Up the Pieces After Hwang

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 04.28.2006

A year ago, it seemed so easy. In May 2005, Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues told the world that...

Human Cloning

CGS and the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research comments on the draft final CIRM research standards [PDF]

By Susan Berke Fogel and Marcy Darnovsky | 04.28.2006

Human Cloning

Editorial: Oversight at Pitt: Whither due diligence?

By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 04.26.2006

A superstar at the University of Pittsburgh was not subjected to commonsensical oversight by his institution.
Gerald Schatten was senior...

Human Cloning

Hwang case: egg donors sue researchers and government

By Asia News, AsiaNews.it | 04.25.2006

Seoul (AsiaNews/CI) _ Two women who donated eggs for embryonic stem cell research by the disgraced cloning scientist, Hwang Woo-suk...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, New York Times | 04.24.2006

COLUMBIA, Mo., April 19 _ Democrats are pressing their support for embryonic stem cell research in Congressional races around the...

Stem Cells