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

The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans

By Marcy Darnovsky, Different Takes (Spring 2000) | 11.30.1999

Published by the Hampshire College Population and Development Program

At the cusp of dot-com frenzy and the biotech century, a...

A "Post-Human" Future?

United Kingdom: Cloning Human Cells

By Novartis, Novartis | 09.08.1999

Which, if any, of the following do you support and which do you oppose?	Support	Oppose	Don't know
Cloning and...

Society

Australia: Genetic Modification, Embryo Testing

By Biotechnology Australia, Biotechnology Australia | 09.08.1999

Genetic modification of human cells is...	Yes	No
acceptable	51	41
beneficial	65	27
Testing embryos for predisposition to disease...

Other Countries

Women outraged over drug's ill effects

By Kay Lazar, Boston Herald | 08.24.1999

At least a dozen women yesterday from around Greater Boston said they were angry to learn that a drug they...

Biotech & Pharma

Women seek answers on drugs suspected side effects

By Kay Lazar, Boston Herald | 08.23.1999

Second in a two-part series.

Hundreds of women nationwide, with nowhere else to turn, are forging a campaign against a...

Biotech & Pharma

Medical miracle turns nightmare - Wonder drug for men alleged to cause harm in women

By Kay Lazar, Boston Herald | 08.22.1999

First in a two part series

Something strange happened to Susan Hayward while taking a drug called Lupron for a...

Assisted Reproduction

America: Cloning research

By Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Pew Research Center for People and the Press | 07.14.1999

	Strongly favor	Favor	Oppose	Strongly oppose
Restricting scientific research on human cloning	19	20	24	33

Conducted July 14...

Society

America: Research Cloning

By NBC News/WSJ, NBC / Wall Street Journal | 06.16.1999

For each item I read, please tell me whether this is something you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or...

Society