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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

California's Stem Cell Program Is Hobbled but Staying the Course

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.10.2005

After nearly an entire morning of sometimes heated debate the other day, the board overseeing California's $3 billion stem cell...

U.S. States

State's stem cell institute is still stuck in neutral

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 12.10.2005

In the 13 months since California voters approved spending $3 billion of their tax dollars on stem cell research, not...

Biotech & Pharma

New Criticism Rages Over South Korean Cell Research

By New York Times, New York Times | 12.10.2005

A new round of criticism has broken out in South Korea over the accuracy of a recent article that reported...

Biotech & Pharma

Feb. 27 court date for Charter test of stem cell program; Foes say enterprise is illegal because it's outside state control

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.07.2005

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw set a trial for Feb. 27 to decide whether California's Proposition 71 stem...

Stem Cells

S. Korean Cloning Pioneer Hospitalized

By The Associated Press, The Associated Press | 12.07.2005

SEOUL, South Korea -- Prominent South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, recently embroiled in a scandal over ethics lapses...

Technologies

Korean broadcaster apologises over cloning allegations

By New Scientist, New Scientist | 12.05.2005

A television programme alleging that South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk fabricated breakthrough stem cell research will not be shown...

Media Coverage

Mamma Mia! 'Infertility,' the Musical

By Newsweek, Newsweek | 12.05.2005

Dec. 5, 2005 issue - Chris Neuner was doing his manly duty in the collection room at New York University's...

Technologies

UK gets £100m stem cell boost

By The Register, The Register | 12.02.2005

The UK's stem cell research programmes will benefit from £100m over the next two years after Gordon Brown doubled the...

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