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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

Gene Therapy Used to Treat Patients With Parkinson's

By Denise Grady and Gina Kolata, New York Times | 08.19.2003

"Do I have a hard head?" asked Nathan Klein. "My wife always says I have a hard head."

"No, it's...

Human Genetic Modification

American Teens: Human and Animal Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 08.01.2003

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

Society

A Walk Down Memory Lane [PDF]

By Manisha Gupte | 07.31.2003

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Test-Tube Babies and Designer Genes

By Gina Maranto, Los Angeles Times | 07.25.2003

Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, turns 25 today, and it certainly seems like a reason to celebrate. Brown...

Genetic Selection

Happy birthday, Louise

By Pete Shanks, San Jose Mercury News | 07.24.2003

The birth of Louise Brown in Oldham, England, on July 25, 1978, was front-page news all over the world. Time...

Human Genetic Modification

Science and Society: Time to act on biotech's human repercussions

By Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.23.2003

Twenty-five years ago, the use of in vitro fertilization to conceive the first "test-tube" baby provoked an important debate --...

Human Genetic Modification

Fertility's New Frontier

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 07.21.2003

Peering into the genetic code of an eight-cell creature scarcely stirs excitement anymore in labs across America. But when the...

Other Countries

TRANSHUMANISM RELOADED

By Stacy Robison, Genetic Crossroads | 07.11.2003

For three days in June, scholars, computer programmers, scientists, social theorists, and bioethicists gathered at Yale University for Transvision USA...