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

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

By Jantina de Vries and Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 07.12.2021

In July 2021, after more than two years of study and consultation, the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Committee on...

Policies

‘The Man Who Hated Women’ Is Mostly About the Women He Hated

By Jennifer Szalai, New York Times | 07.12.2021

“The Man Who Hated Women,” the arresting title of Amy Sohn’s new book, would have been more fitting if the...

Arts & Culture

Should we edit human embryos' genomes, and if so then how?

By Dieter Egli, BioNews [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.12.2021

I recently received a thoughtful letter from a college student I do not know – I'll call her Claudia* –...

Human Genetic Modification

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Receive Environmental Award For Their Two-Children Limit

By Evita Duffy, The Federalist | 07.12.2021

^{Photo by Mark Jones on Flickr}

For vowing to only have two children max, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have...

Public Opinion

A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science

By Laura Hercher, Scientific American | 07.12.2021

For better or worse, genetic testing of embryos offers a potential gateway into a new era of human control over...

Assisted Reproduction

World Health Organization advisers urge global effort to regulate genome editing

By Megan Molteni, STAT [cites CGS] | 07.12.2021

On Monday, a World Health Organization advisory committee called on the world’s largest public health authority to stand by the...

Policies

Israel’s high court opens the way for same-sex couples to have children via surrogacy

By Claire Parker, Washington Post | 07.11.2021

^{Photo by Ted Eytan on Flickr}

A decision by Israel’s supreme court Sunday paved the way for same-sex couples to...

Policies

What does the Chinese military want with your unborn baby’s genetic data?

By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian | 07.10.2021

Your unborn baby is already being monetized

Could data harvested from millions of pregnant women pave the way for genetically...

Society