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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

Kazuto Kato: the ethics of editing humanity

By Gary Humphreys, Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 09.01.2021

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Gary Humphreys talks to Kazuto Kato about the...

Human Genetic Modification

We Haven’t Really Cracked the Code of Life

By Jag Bhalla, Issues in Science and Technology | 09.01.2021

To say that scientists now understand life’s “code” is a stretch. So, from the very title of Walter Isaacson’s latest...

Society

CRISPR-Based Therapeutics Blaze an In Vivo Path to the Clinic

By Ashleen Knutsen, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 09.01.2021

Therapeutic applications of genome editing were envisioned at least as early as the mid-1990s, when the first sequence-specific genome editing...

Human Genetic Modification

What’s next for lab-grown human embryos?

By Kendall Powell, Nature | 08.31.2021

It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he had an agonizing task ahead...

Animal Biotechnologies

New gene therapies may soon treat dozens of rare diseases, but million-dollar price tags will put them out of reach for many

By Kevin Doxzen, The Conversation | 08.31.2021

Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay...

Human Genetic Modification

Rogue Stem Cell Clinics, CIRM and the Feds

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.31.2021

The California stem cell agency has posted a bit of a roundup on the state of regulatory affairs concerning what...

Stem Cells

13X Paralympic Medalist from Team USA, Tatyana McFadden

Strides made but stigmas remain: Japan hesitant in embracing Paralympics

By Gavin Blair, The Guardian | 08.30.2021

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When the Tokyo ...

Public Opinion

Japan to allow wider preimplantation genetic testing of eggs in IVF

By Mie Sakamoto, Kyodo News | 08.29.2021

Testing of fertilized eggs during in-vitro fertilization treatment to identify genetic diseases before pregnancy will be expanded to cover conditions...

Assisted Reproduction