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 effort mired in legal bog, global scandal

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.22.2006

California's Proposition 71 program was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health...

Biotech & Pharma

Editorial: Stem cell fallout

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 01.20.2006

The fraud perpetrated by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk is a setback for regenerative medicine, but it also serves as...

Technologies

Group wants head of stem cell initiative to quit

By San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.19.2006

A public watchdog group called yesterday for the chairman of the board overseeing California's stem cell initiative to step down...

Human Cloning

Call for head of stem cell institute to resign

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.19.2006

An East Bay biotechnology watchdog group on Wednesday called for the resignation of Robert Klein, chairman of the Proposition 71...

Human Cloning

State's stem-cell effort criticized in report

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 01.19.2006

A watchdog group issued a critique Wednesday of the state's 1-year-old stem-cell research institute, calling it ``a great disappointment so...

Human Cloning

Stem cell official on hot seat

By Rebecca Vesely, Oakland Tribune | 01.19.2006

California's new stem cell institute, which voters approved 14 months ago, is falling far short of expectations, and its chairman...

Human Cloning

Group wants stem cell chairman to resign

By Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Examiner | 01.19.2006

A watchdog group called on Bob Klein to step down as chairman of the board overseeing California_s stem cell institute...

Stem Cells

Other states looking to spend public money on stem cell research

By Capitol Weekly, Capitol Weekly | 01.19.2006

During the 2004 elections, supporters of California's Proposition 71 stem
cell effort said they hoped the initiative would serve as...

U.S. States