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 Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.10.2004

President George W. Bush may end up doing California stem cell researchers a huge favor. Spurred by the Bush Administration's...

Patents & Other IP

'Designer Baby' Gets Go-Ahead (UK)

By Deutsche Welle, Deutsche Welle | 09.10.2004

A couple in Northern Ireland have been permitted under a recent law in Great Britain to pursue the process which...

Stem Cells

California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.10.2004

California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

Gretchen Vogel
Science
September 10, 2004

President George W. Bush may end...

U.S. States

Italian minister in trouble after stem cell transplant announcement

By Rossella Lorenzi, The Scientist | 09.09.2004

Calls for his resignation abound after stem cell transplant announcement

Politicians and scientists in Italy are calling for the resignation...

Genetic Selection

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

By Viginia Commonwealth University, Viginia Commonwealth University | 09.07.2004

How much do you favor or oppose...

Strongly Favor

Somewhat Favor

Somewhat Oppose

Strongly Oppose

Don’t Know

No...

Society

Rush for designer babies

By Nick Papps, The Sunday Mail (Australia) | 09.05.2004

HUNDREDS of Australian couples are avoiding the law and buying designer babies in the United States. A Sunday Mail investigation...

Human Genetic Modification

Singapore bans cloning

By Reuters, Reuters | 09.02.2004

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Singapore banned human cloning on Thursday and said offenders would face 10 years in jail to prevent...

Biotech & Pharma

Babies at risk of being 'commodities', says Lord Winston

By Simon Collins, New Zealand Herald | 09.02.2004

Genetic pioneer Lord Robert Winston says the technology that he helped develop now risks turning babies into "commodities".

The British...

Bioethics