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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...

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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...

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Inclusivity and diversity: Integrating international perspectives on stem cell challenges and potential

By Robin Fears et al., Stem Cell Reports | 07.29.2021

Introduction

Scientific advances in regenerative medicine continue to offer great promise in our attempts to tackle intractable diseases, including those...

Stem Cells

Universities should not offer the false hope of ‘fertility’ benefits

By Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Times Higher Education | 07.29.2021

Talented young women and men in both the academic and business worlds share a common dilemma: their career development timeline...

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Family of Henrietta Lacks hires star civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who says they plan to sue pharmaceutical companies

By Tim Prudente, The Baltimore Sun | 07.29.2021

The family of Henrietta Lacks has hired a prominent civil rights attorney who says he plans to seek compensation for...

Biotech & Pharma

ACMG Carrier Screening Guidelines: Falling Short On Equity and Inclusion

By Katie Stoll and Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.26.2021

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recently published a new Clinical Practice Resource that they proclaim recommends...

Genomics

IPO Raises $304M for Caribou, Developer of Gene-Edited Cell Therapies

By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 07.26.2021

Caribou Biosciences, the developer of gene-edited cell therapies co-founded by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, has launched an upsized initial...

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