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

Implementation of Prop. 71 [MP3]

By Andrea Lewis, Marcy Darnovsky, and Terry Francke, KPFA The Morning Show | 12.28.2004
Stem Cells

Editorial: Stem-Cell Reality Check

By admin Wall Street Journal | 12.27.2004
California voters approved a stem-cell initiative known as Proposition 71 on November 2. But only recently has anyone gotten around...
Stem Cells

Public accountability is key to California's stem-cell research

By Deborah Ortiz, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.27.2004
In passing Proposition 71 last month, California voters overwhelmingly entrusted not only their hopes for developing new medical breakthroughs to...
Patents & Other IP

Second-guessing Prop. 71

By Tali Woodward and Laura M. Allen, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 12.22.2004
Promoters of California's stem-cell plan are now acknowledging that the measure contains great potential for abuse As a newly appointed...
Stem Cells

Editorial: Stem cell board must find way to hold open meetings

By admin Oakland Tribune | 12.21.2004
ROBERT N. Klein, the millionaire Portola Valley real estate developer, was sworn in Friday to lead California's $3 billion venture...
Patents & Other IP

Woes for California's stem-cell experiment

By Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor | 12.20.2004
The debate over stem-cell research has been stirred again - this time by the unlikeliest of sources.

For months, state...
Stem Cells

Financier to Lead Institute on Stem Cells

By Carolyn Marshall, New York Times | 12.18.2004
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17 - The real estate developer who helped write and finance a ballot initiative to create a...
Biotech & Pharma

Prop. 71 financier debuts as chairman

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.18.2004
29-member board sworn in; biotech exec is vice chair

Robert N. Klein, a millionaire developer with no scientific credentials but...
Stem Cells