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

Editorial: Stem cell oversight board is flying blind

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 09.18.2005

Robert Klein II, the self-appointed czar of California's stem cell institute, has created a completely unworkable system for dispensing $3...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem cell research: cutting-edge science or corporate subsidies, courtesy of voters?

By Capitol Weekly, Capitol Weekly | 09.15.2005

The organizations created to fund stem cell research in California announced
their first grants last week, despite the fact that...

Stem Cells

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

By Viginia Commonwealth University, Viginia Commonwealth University | 09.14.2005

How much do you favor or oppose...

Strongly Favor

Somewhat Favor

Somewhat Oppose

Strongly Oppose

Don’t Know

No...

Society

Ex-movie chief keeps big role in health care

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 09.12.2005

Sherry Lansing, the first woman to head a major movie studio, couldn't even get a glass of water from the...

Stem Cells

Stem cell funds awarded

By Edie Lau, Sacramento Bee | 09.10.2005

Ten months after California voters approved a special program for stem cell research, the first grants, totaling $38.9 million over...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem Cell Agency Awards $39 Million [California]

By Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times | 09.10.2005

California's stem cell research agency awarded the first of a planned $3 billion in grants Friday, announcing that a little...

Biotech & Pharma

Despite uncertain funding, agency issues first grants

By Bill Ainsworth, San Diego Union Tribune | 09.10.2005

California's groundbreaking stem cell agency yesterday announced its first grants to train a new generation of scientists in a potentially...

Biotech & Pharma

The Color of Stem Cells

By Josef Tayag, The Greenlining Institute | 09.09.2005

After losing half of one of my lungs to tuberculosis while volunteering in the Andes last year, I assumed that...

Human Rights