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

California's New Stem-Cell Initiative Is Already Raising Concerns

By John M. Broder, The New York Times | 11.27.2004
As California moves to begin a lushly financed program of embryonic stem cell research, medical ethicists and other skeptics are...
Patents & Other IP

Embryo screening 'devalues' disabled (New Zealand)

By Rebecca Palmer, Stuff NZ | 11.25.2004
Screening human embryos for serious genetic conditions could "devalue" disabled children, the Office of the Children's Commissioner says.


Commission policy...
Disability Rights

Stem-cell question may land on ballot

By John Chase and Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune | 11.24.2004
Plan to let voters decide in 2006

Days after state legislators voted down a largely symbolic measure supporting privately funded...
U.S. States

Divvying Up The Stem Cell Bonanza

By Business Week, Business Week | 11.22.2004

California's Proposition 71 has critics of conflicts and favoritism ready to pounce


Long before California voters passed Proposition 71 on...

Technologies

California Stem Cell Project Energizes Other States to Act

By Megan Garvey, Los Angeles Times | 11.22.2004
To keep researchers from being lured away, other funding efforts are in the works. 

As California moves quickly toward setting...
Biotech & Pharma

Michael Cook: Where are the ethics in brazen bioethics?

By Michael Cook, The Age | 11.22.2004
They're grabbing headlines, but do these "experts" say anything worth listening to, asks Michael Cook.

For a small country, Australia...
Eugenics

Of Mice, Men and In-Between: Scientists Debate Blending Of Human, Animal Forms

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.20.2004
In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.

In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and...
Bioethics

U.N. Abandons Idea of Anti-Cloning Treaty

By Nick Wadhams, Associated Press | 11.19.2004
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. diplomats abandoned contentious efforts to draft a treaty that would outlaw human cloning and will likely...
Human Cloning