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

Stem-cell oracles

By Dan Pine, J. The Jewish newsweekly of northern California | 02.23.2006

Claire LeVine loves to watch her 7-year-old grandson, Bobby Stearns, play his heart out in Little League. She loves to...

Religion

Ortiz wants audit of stem-cell institute

By Sacramento Business Journal, Sacramento Business Journal | 02.22.2006

State Sen. Deborah Ortiz and 10 other California legislators have asked for an audit of the California Institute for Regenerative...

Stem Cells

Fake findings used to secure $16M grant

By Jennifer Bails, Pittsburgh Tribune Review | 02.22.2006

A University of Pittsburgh reproductive biologist relied on the now-discredited stem-cell findings of a disgraced Korean scientist to win a...

Stem Cells

The Future of Violence Against Women

By Sujatha Jesudason, US Women Without Borders | 02.21.2006

I was born into a culture that embraces confusing messages about the worth and value of women. I grew up...

Human Rights

Stem cell transparency

By Editorial, Los Angeles Times | 02.20.2006

AFTER A FIRST YEAR THAT veered off in too many bad directions, California's budding stem cell agency has started 2006...

Stem Cells

Of Mice, Men and Stem-Cell Research

By Osagie K. Obasogie, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.20.2006

President Bush's State of the Union address highlighted several key policy issues, such as America's dependency on foreign oil, the...

Stem Cells

Sales ban on eggs of women advances

By Capitol Media Services, Capitol Media Services | 02.17.2006

PHOENIX _ A House panel voted Thursday to criminalize the practice of buying and selling human eggs.
The 6-2 Judiciary...

U.S. Federal

South Korean Cloning Scandal Takes Toll on Whistle-Blowers

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times | 02.16.2006

SEOUL _ Like many scandals, this one started with an anonymous tip and a cloak-and-dagger meeting in the dead of...

Stem Cells