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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

South Koreans Rush to Defend Cloning Researcher Against Criticism

By New York Times, New York Times | 11.29.2005

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 28 - Days after his televised fall from grace, Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea's cloning pioneer...

Human Cloning

Eggs vs Ethics in the Stem Cell Debate

By Emily Galpern and Marcy Darnovsky, The Nation online | 11.29.2005

The debate about stem cell research has focused for years on the moral status of the human embryo, largely overlooking...

Human Cloning

Editorial: Oocytes for sale?

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 11.25.2005

Don't count eggs until standards hatch

When Californians approved Proposition 71 to create the state's $3 billion stem cell institute...

Stem Cells

S. Korea Stem Cell Pioneer Resigns Posts Over Human Donor Furor

By Bloomberg, Bloomberg | 11.24.2005

Hwang Woo Suk, a South Korean researcher credited with making the first embryonic stem cells genetically matched to living adults...

Stem Cells

S. Korean Stem Cell Team Paid Women for Eggs

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.22.2005

The head of a Seoul fertility clinic associated with an embattled Korean stem cell researcher said yesterday that he paid...

Stem Cells

Doctors sidestep laws to import stem cell 'bank'

By Telegraph, Telegraph (London) | 11.22.2005

A vast "bank" of human stem cells is to be brought to Britain, bringing hope of new cures for fatal...

Policies

Donor Issue Slows Stem Cell Progress: S. Korea Crisis May Affect U.S. Debate

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.20.2005

An ethics crisis at one of the world's most successful human embryonic stem cell laboratories has plunged the controversial field...

Stem Cells

The Problem With an Almost-Perfect Genetic World

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 11.20.2005

MIA PETERSON is not a fan of tests. Because she has Down syndrome, she says, she cannot always think as...