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: Reproductive Cloning

By CBS News, CBS News | 05.01.2002

	Yes	No
Is it possible to clone human beings?	76	18
Should scientists be allowed to clone humans?	11...

Society

Inside the Very Strange World of Billionaire John Sperling

By Melanie Warner, Fortune | 04.29.2002

John Sperling was in his office in Phoenix when he got the call. His longtime friend Lou Hawthorne was phoning...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Call for Re-think on Eugenics

By admin BBC News | 04.26.2002

The condemnation of eugenics went too far and it needs reassessment, a leading scientist is arguing.

Eugenics is the science...

Human Genetic Modification

A Timeout on Cloning Embryos

By Richard Hayes, Baltimore Sun | 04.23.2002

The U.S. Senate is set to vote on human cloning within the next few weeks. Unfortunately, a polarized political climate...

Biopolitics

America: Reproductive Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 04.22.2002

Would you favor or oppose a law that would prohibit the cloning of human beings [or are you unsure]?

...

Society

The Body Shop

By Ralph Brave, The Nation | 04.22.2002

There are those opposed to the use of cloning technology to create human embryos for stem-cell research whose concerns emanate...

Stem Cells

Cloning: Now You See You, Now You See Two?

By admin The Dallas Morning News | 04.22.2002

President Bush is pressing Congress to ban human cloning. Last year, the House voted to ban such cloning. The Senate...

Biopolitics

America: Research Cloning

By Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research | 04.18.2002

	Support	Oppose	Don't know
favor the government allowing scientists to do therapeutic cloning research to produce stem cells for...

Society