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

Deep Roots and Tangled Branches

By Troy Duster, Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.03.2006

People who know their biological parents and grandparents typically take the information for granted. Some have a difficult time empathizing...

Racial Justice

Stem cell research regulations mulled

By Sandi Dolbee, San Diego Union Tribune | 02.01.2006

By Sandi Dolbee
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 1, 2006

LOS ANGELES _ Women who donate eggs for state-funded embryonic stem...

Technologies

State laws bypass research ban

By Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor | 02.01.2006

Washington has effectively put a lid on federal efforts to advance embryonic stem-cell research. But pressure from scientists eager to...

U.S. States

There is no stop button in the race for human re-engineering

By Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian | 01.30.2006

Science will soon give some of us the tools to make ourselves cleverer and stronger. What will it mean for...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Opinion: Learning from stem cell stumbles

By Jesse Reynolds, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.27.2006

The leaders of California's ambitious stem cell research program should closely read the news of the last couple months. A...

Human Cloning

Scientists say human enhancement will shape competition of the future

By Paisley Dodds, Associated Press | 01.26.2006

Memory enhancement, IQ boosters and drugs designed to attack genetic weaknesses may increase competition in the future and create a...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem cell profit rules urged

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 01.24.2006

Biotech companies that commercialize taxpayer-funded stem cell research would have to plan to sell the drugs at the "lowest available...

Patents & Other IP

Watchdog suggests stem cell policies for state

By San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.23.2006

A taxpayer watchdog group is expected to release a report today outlining how leaders of the state's $3 billion stem...

Patents & Other IP