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

Hold scientists accountable

By Richard Hayes, The Baltimore Sun | 01.17.2006

So now it's confirmed that South Korean stem cell king Hwang Woo Suk had been lying all along - not...

Human Cloning

Stem cell experts keep active while funds lag in limbo

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.13.2006

It will take at least 15 months for California's new stem cell institute to resolve court challenges and gain access...

Stem Cells

Editorial: Stem-cell politics

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.13.2006

THE TRAGIC RISE and fall of veterinarian Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean stem-cell researcher who was found to have...

Stem Cells

Opinion: Michael Cook: Back to taws on ethics

By Michael Cook, The Australian | 01.13.2006

STEM cell scientists have been shattered by this week's confirmation that their poster boy, South Korean Hwang Woo-suk, is a...

Bioethics

Hwang Debacle Seen as "Regression of Democracy"

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 01.12.2006

Korea University historian Choi Jang-jip criticized the government for its inability to properly monitor the works of Seoul National University...

Society

Public Calls for Stricter Ova Regulation

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 01.12.2006

Voices are getting louder over the revision of the bioethics law amid allegations that female researchers of Prof. Hwang Woo-suk's...

Other Countries

Lesson in South Korea: Stem Cells Aren't Cars or Chips

By International Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune | 01.11.2006

SEOUL, Wednesday, Jan. 11 - The downfall of Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean scientist vilified for faking his papers...

Other Countries

Researcher Faked Evidence of Human Cloning, Koreans Report

By New York Times, New York Times | 01.10.2006

Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean researcher who claimed to have cloned human cells, fabricated evidence for all of...

Biotech & Pharma