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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

As gene-editing moves mainstream, a pioneer in the field is testing whether it could prevent Alzheimer's

By Allison DeAngelis, Insider | 11.22.2021

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David Liu is best known as one of the pioneers of the experimental science of editing...

Human Genetic Modification

FDA approves first drug for genetic cause of dwarfism

By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.19.2021

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment for the most common cause of dwarfism Friday, a drug that...

Society

CRISPR gene editing causes whole chromosome loss

By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 11.19.2021

In another of a long line of studies showing unintended effects of gene editing, the CRISPR-Cas gene editing tool has...

Animal Biotechnologies

For me, IVF and other fertility programs can have a darker and less happy side

By Blake Turck, The Washington Post | 11.13.2021

As a little girl, I never dreamed of motherhood. When I got married at 36, I assumed pregnancy would come...

Bioethics

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing May Select for Cells With Cancer-Related Mutations

By Sophia Ktori, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.12.2021

A comprehensive study headed by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys has shown that gene editing—specifically gene knockout (KO)—using CRISPR-Cas9 technology...

Genetic Selection

Biden Chooses Robert Califf to Lead F.D.A., Despite Drug Industry Ties

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Kaplan, The New York Times | 11.12.2021

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Friday that he would nominate Dr. Robert M. Califf, a former commissioner of the...

U.S. Federal

A Vision for the Future of Science Philanthropy

By Evan S. Michelson and Adam F. Falk, Issues in Science and Technology | 11.09.2021

Although we can envision many ways that the scientific enterprise might evolve in the future, an often-overlooked component will surely...

Society

Q&A: Bioethicist Leigh Turner on the worrisome boom in unregulated stem cell clinics

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.08.2021

In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration put the emerging stem cell cottage industry on notice. At the time...

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