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

Korean Scientist Quits After Charges He Faked Cloning Data

By New York Times, New York Times | 12.23.2005

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 23 - A landmark scientific paper on cloning that propelled a South Korean scientist, Hwang Woo...

Human Cloning

Colleague of embattled scientist Hwang asks university to investigate earlier work

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 12.21.2005

SEOUL, South Korea _ A former colleague of embattled South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk said Wednesday he had...

Human Cloning

Stem cell scandal reverberates in U.S.

By San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune | 12.18.2005

S. Korea controversy leads to calls for more oversight

As a South Korean scientist defends against mounting accusations that he...

Assisted Reproduction

Promises Made, but No Results

By K. Lloyd Billingsley, LA Daily News | 12.18.2005

A year after the passage of Proposition 71, the $3 billion Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, there is no...

Biotech & Pharma

In a first, New Jersey awards stem-cell grants

By Philadelphia Inquirer , Philadelphia Inquirer | 12.17.2005

The state became the first in the nation yesterday to fund stem-cell research, awarding grants to 17 researchers at universities...

Policies

Collaborator Says Korean Cloning Pioneer Admitted Faking Stem Cell Results

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 12.15.2005

SEOUL, South Korea -- A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk said in a...

Human Cloning

In the brains of mice grow the cells of man

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.13.2005

Researchers in San Diego have designed mice containing fully functional human nerve cells as a novel way to study and...

Bioethics

Opinion: What California can learn from Korean cloning scandal

By Nigel M. de S. Cameron and M. L. Tina Stevens, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.13.2005

News that the world's leading cloning expert, Hwang Woo Suk, resigned after admitting unethical research practices stunned the science community...

Assisted Reproduction