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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
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“I Just Want To Live”: A Pregnant Surrogate In Ukraine Speaks Out

By Lizzie Cernik and Anastasiia Levchenko, Refinery29 | 03.16.2022

Kharkiv, Ukraine: 13 March, 2022
Photo by Fotoreserg

The day before war broke out in Ukraine, 33-year-old Tanya [...

Assisted Reproduction
a strand of DNA has one side taken out by someone with an editing tool

Genome editing products: FDA recommends at least 15 years of follow-up after clinical trials

By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 03.15.2022

As Intellia recently unveiled its latest promising data around one in a series of potentially game-changing gene therapies, the FDA...

Policies

Juvenile Law Center Announces 2022 Leadership Prize Recipients

By Press Release, Juvenile Law Center | 03.15.2022

Philadelphia, PA (March 15, 2022) – Today, Juvenile Law Center, the nation’s first public interest law firm for children's rights...

Arts & Culture
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Africa: sequence 100,000 species to safeguard biodiversity

By ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer et al., Nature | 03.15.2022

Image by James Wiseman on Unsplash

Sleeper fish (Bostrychus africanus) are a staple food in West Africa. Harvesting...

Animal Biotechnologies
Françoise Baylis

World‑Renowned Dalhousie Bioethicist and Battery Pioneer Win Prestigious Killam Prize

By Andrew Riley and Caitlyn MacDonald, Dal News | 03.15.2022

Françoise Baylis, photo by XhenetaM,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two of Dalhousie’s leading researchers are being honoured...

Society
lab mouse sitting in a gloved hand

Mice Birthed From Unfertilized Eggs for the First Time

By Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine | 03.14.2022

A team of researchers have successfully raised a mouse into adulthood that was produced from a single unfertilized egg. 

This...

Animal Biotechnologies
Buildings in Kyiv Ukraine

In a Kyiv Basement, 19 Surrogate Babies Are Trapped by War but Kept Alive by Nannies

By Andrew E. Kramer and Maria Varenikova, The New York Times | 03.12.2022

CC0 / Public Domain License. Image Info

Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim...

Other Countries
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California stem cell clinic to pay out $3.65M settlement to former patients for ineffective treatments

By Paul Schloesser, Endpoints News | 03.11.2022

Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash

Four years after the FDA admonished stem cell clinic StemGenex for making dubious claims...

Stem Cells