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

“Do We Want Science to Reinvent Human Aging?”

By Bill McKibben and Gregory Stock, Transcript of live debate | 03.27.2003

Daniel Perry, Executive Director, Alliance for Aging Research: Good afternoon, my name is Dan Perry and I’m the Executive Director...

Human Cloning

The Threshold Challenge of the New Human Genetic Technologies

By admin | 03.01.2003

Introduction

The Basic Science

A New Ideology

What Is to be Done?

The Current Policy Landscape

Towards an International Policy...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Twist and Shout!

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 02.25.2003

Helen Polson clasped her hands together, excited, as she took in an exhibit at an art show focused on genetics...

Arts & Culture

The Weapons of Mass Creation

By Caroline S. Wagner, Los Angleles Times | 02.13.2003
Without providing a shred of evidence, the Raelian cult made headlines with sensational claims of creating cloned babies. Far less...
Human Cloning

Scientists Swap Genes in Human Stem Cells

By Associated Press, (as published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) | 02.10.2003

Madison scientists have found a way to swap genes in and out of human embryonic stem cells, a milestone in...

America: Cloning

By LA Times, Los Angeles Times | 01.30.2003

Which of these statements comes closest to your view on human cloning?

I support a complete ban on all research...
Society

Letter to HFEA on Sex Selection

By Tania Simoncelli and Marcy Darnovsky | 01.22.2003

Vishnee Seenundun
Consultation Co-ordinator
HFEA
Paxton House
30 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS

Dear Vishnee Seenundun,

We are writing to...

Genetic Selection

Gene Therapy Trials Halted

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.15.2003

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday suspended 27 gene therapy trials involving several hundred patients after learning that a second...