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

Scientists fear new drugs and genetic doping

By Jennifer Tang, EurekAlert! | 07.21.2004

Can doping athletes be stopped? With the Athens Olympics about to open, scientists are increasingly concerned that sophisticated techniques for...

'Designer baby' rules up for debate (UK)

By BBC News, BBC News | 07.17.2004

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is to debate its policy on creating babies who can help sick siblings...

Technologies

Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies

By Richard Hayes | 07.15.2004

Presentation at Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies: A Threshold Challenge for the 21st Century, New York, NY [...

Eugenics

Boy or girl?

By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday | 07.14.2004

Up until now, Sharla Miller's life could pretty much be titled "My Three Sons." Nature dealt her boy after boy...

Genetic Selection

Weird Science: The Implications of Playing With Nature

By Janet Kim, The Village Voice | 07.13.2004

Entertainment plays with our aversion to conformity via bad science, i.e., playing with nature (see The Stepford Wives; I, Robot...

International Policy Failures: Cloning and Stem-cell Research

By Carol A. Tauer , The Lancet | 07.10.2004

Vol. 364, No. 9429

Introduction

The UN and cloning

Separation of cloning for research from reproductive cloning

Funding controversial research...

Human Cloning

Canada: Human and Animal Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 07.01.2004

Is _____ morally acceptable?

	Yes	No
Cloning animals	30
Cloning humans	8

Source: "Can a "Reagan...

Society

Selected Quotes from Those Calling for Bans on Species-Altering Technologies

By admin | 06.17.2004

"[G]erm-line genetic alteration [poses] many risks and potential harms, without any clear benefit to any individual. It…jeopardizes, rather than...

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