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

America: Pet cloning and genetic modification

By ORC for AAVS, ORC for AAVS | 02.08.2004

Do you favor or oppose the cloning of companion animals, such as dogs or cats?

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Public Opinion

NGO for UN life sciences technology evaluation body

By Gireesh Chandra Prasad , Express Pharma Pulse | 01.24.2004

NGO for UN life sciences technology evaluation body

Gireesh Chandra Prasad
Express Pharma Pulse
January 22, 2004

Canada-based NGO "etc...

Human Genetic Modification

Gods and Monsters

By Mark Dowie, Mother Jones (January/February 2004) | 12.31.2003

ON APRIL FOOLS' DAY 1998, within hours of reading U.S. patent application No. 08/993,564, the Honorable Bruce Lehman did something...

Patents & Other IP

High-Tech Sex Selection

By Marcy Darnovsky, GeneWatch | 12.31.2003

In the United States and a few other prosperous, technologically advanced countries, methods of sex selection that are less intrusive...

Genetic Selection

The Ghost of Medical Atrocities

By Howard Markel, M.D., New York Times | 12.12.2003

Ever since 1972, when the American public first learned about the Tuskegee syphilis research that subjected African-American men to scientific...

Human Rights

2003 CGS Report on the UN Cloning Treaty Negotiations

By admin | 11.24.2003

On November 6, 2003, after two years of debate and no substantive action, the United Nations voted to suspend until...

Global Governance

Should We Improve Our Genome?

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 11.11.2003

Now that we have decoded the human genome, why don't we improve it?

The question is at present theoretical but...

Eugenics

Cloning and Germline Intervention: U.S. Perspectives

By Marcy Darnovsky | 10.13.2003

Presentation at The Within and Beyond Human Nature conference, Berlin, Germany

Unlike selective abortion and PGD, the reproductive genetic...

Human Cloning