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

Nucleus of the debate

By Richard Hayes, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.17.2002

HUMAN CLONING will soon be voted on by the U.S. Senate. Unfortunately, a polarized political climate and lack of political...

Biopolitics

America: Research and Reproductive Cloning

By Americans to Ban Cloning, Americans to Ban Cloning | 04.13.2002

Just last week, President Bush stated that he is opposed to both reproductive cloning, that is cloning with the goal...

Society

Coalition Urges a Ban on All Human Cloning

By Mary Leonard, The Boston Globe | 03.22.2002

WASHINGTON - Congress is facing mounting calls from some unexpected quarters to halt medical research involving human cloning.

Since the...

Biopolitics

Liberal Anti-Cloners Up to Bat

By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired | 03.19.2002

A group of self-proclaimed liberal, pro-choice leaders held a press conference Tuesday to influence the Senate's votes on an anti-cloning...

Biopolitics

No a la Clonación Humana

By Pedro F. Frisneda, Tiempos del Mundo | 03.07.2002

Primero fue la oveja Dolly, luego embriones humanos, y mas recientemente un gato* La clonación se ha convertido en uno...

Human Genetic Modification

Jack or Jill? The Era of Consumer-Driven Eugenics Has Begun

By Margaret Talbot, The Atlantic Monthly | 02.28.2002

There are things about one's life and especially about one's children that cannot be known in advance and to which...

Human Genetic Modification

Designer Babies: Human cloning is a long way off, but bioengineered kids are already here.

By Shannon Brownlee, The Washington Monthly | 02.28.2002

In the mid-1990s, embryologist Jacques Cohen pioneered a promising new technique for helping infertile women have children. His technique, known...

Genetic Selection

Cloning: U.N. Debate Centers On Total Ban Or Allowance For Research

By Jim Wurst, UN Wire | 02.28.2002

Delegates began talks this week on a convention banning human cloning, with general agreement that cloning to produce babies should...

Global Governance