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

Human beings, as currently constituted, are good enough

By Ralph Brave, Salon | 04.30.2003

Bill McKibben, author of the renowned book The End of Nature, has a new concern: the end of human...

Designer Genes

By Bill McKibben, Orion | 04.30.2003

I GREW UP IN A HOUSEHOLD where we were very suspicious of dented cans. Dented cans were, according to my...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Cell Division

By George Annas, Boston Globe | 04.21.2003

Delegates from around the world met at the United Nations recently to begin preparing an international treaty to outlaw the...

Bioethics

Watson's World

By Susan Lindee, Science | 04.18.2003

Vol. 300, No. 5618

A review of James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry, DNA: The Secret of Life (New York...

Human Genetic Modification

Keep Us Human: If We're Truly Smart, We'll Refuse to Foolishly Tamper with Our DNA

By Bill McKibben, Los Angeles Times | 04.14.2003

The 50th anniversary of the double helix has been greeted with worldwide hoopla. It began in February, the month that...

Human Genetic Modification

Germline Warfare

By Ralph Brave, The Nation | 04.07.2003

A most remarkable event occurred in the weeks preceding the June 2000 announcement of the completion of the first draft...

Human Cloning

Australia: Cloning, Genetic Modification, Gene Therapy

By Biotechnology Australia, Biotechnology Australia | 04.01.2003

Morally acceptable?	Yes	No
Human cloning	-	87
Genetic testing of embryos	61	-
Correction of genetic disorders for...

Society

Human Biotechnology: Responding to Emerging Dangerous New Human Genetics

By Jesse Reynolds, Z Magazine | 03.31.2003

As 2003 began, the mainstream press was grappling with a cloning hoax. This January, it launched extended coverage of the...

Human Cloning