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

A crowd of women holding up white flags and a white banner that reads "MARCH FOR LIFE" in red

White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement

By Moira Donegan, The Guardian | 01.24.2022

^{Photo by Steve Sanchez on Shutterstock}

This weekend’s March for Life rally, the large anti-choice demonstration held annually in Washington...

Eugenics

Some egg donor agencies advertise $275,000 paychecks on social media — but the rigorous process is a far cry from making a 'quick buck'

By Hannah Towey, Business Insider | 01.23.2022

The complex nature of the egg donation business is baked right into the name. A careful balancing act between...

U.S. Federal

A $3bn bet on finding the fountain of youth

By Staff, The Economist | 01.22.2022

Startups come and startups go. But few startups start with $3bn in the bank. Yet that is the fortunate position in...

Stem Cells

Their DNA Hides a Warning, but They Don’t Want to Know What It Says

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 01.21.2022

^{"Biobank" by UiT Norges arktiske universitet

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via flickr}

Marin Konstadt, visiting family in...

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Gloved hand holding a test tube labeled "DNA TEST"

Voluntary workplace genomic testing: wellness benefit or Pandora’s box?

By Kunal Sanghavi, Betty Cohn, Anya E. R. Prince, W. Gregory Feero, Kerry A. Ryan, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Wendy R. Uhlmann, Charles Lee, J. Scott Roberts & Debra J. H. Mathews, npj Genomic Medicine | 01.20.2022

Consumer interest in genetic and genomic testing is growing rapidly, with more than 26 million Americans having purchased direct-to-consumer (DTC)...

U.S. Federal

What’s Wrong with the FDA?

By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, Washington Monthly | 01.20.2022

If Robert Califf, the White House nominee for commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is confirmed by the Senate...

U.S. Federal

Kidneys From a Genetically Altered Pig Are Implanted in a Brain-Dead Patient

By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 01.20.2022

^{Photo courtesy of Sanford Health via flickr}

Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported on Thursday that they...

Animal Biotechnologies

Rejuvenation by controlled reprogramming is the latest gambit in anti-aging

By Michael Eisenstein, Nature Biotechnology | 01.19.2022

On 19 January, co-founders Rick Klausner and Hans Bishop publicly launched an aging research initiative called Altos Labs, with $3...

Animal Biotechnologies