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
23andme test package

23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online

By Kevin Collier, NBC News | 10.07.2023

Hackers have compiled a giant apparent list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry after taking that information from the genetic...

Genomics
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Gene therapies for rare diseases are under threat. Scientists hope to save them

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 10.06.2023

Image via Flickr

It was one of gene therapy’s greatest successes — and greatest disappointments.

Strimvelis is a potent treatment...

Society
stethoscope in black and white

AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How’d it go?

By Carmen Drahl, NPR | 10.06.2023

It seemed like a pretty straightforward exercise.

Arsenii Alenichev typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering...

Bioethics
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They Were Given IUDs as Children Without Their Consent. Now, They Want Compensation.

By Isabella Kwai, The New York Times | 10.03.2023
Dozens of Indigenous women and girls from Greenland have said that they had intrauterine devices inserted without their consent in...
Eugenics
a DNA test

F.D.A. Moves to Regulate Lab Tests That It Says Put Patients ‘at Risk’

By Christina Jewett, The New York Times | 09.29.2023
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it was moving to close what has widely been viewed as...
U.S. Federal
egg and sperm in beaker

Japanese scientists race to create human eggs and sperm in the lab

By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.28.2023

Katsuhiko Hayashi pulls a clear plastic dish from an incubator and slides it under a microscope.

"You really want to...

Assisted Reproduction
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Stop overselling GM on yield, warns plant breeding researcher

By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.26.2023

Photo by Shuken Nakamura on Unsplash

A young researcher studying plant breeding for her PhD at Cornell University has just...

Patents & Other IP
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Myopic View of Xenotransplantation

By Franklin G. Miller, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 09.25.2023

The news media significantly influence public perceptions of medical innovation. How cutting- edge medical innovation is presented—what receives attention and...

Animal Biotechnologies