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

For now, stem cells for Covid-19 are mostly a shot in the dark

By Paul Knoepfler, STAT | 06.25.2021

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The uncertainty over how to effectively treat Covid-19 is proving to be an...

Stem Cells

Britney Spears’ Reproductive Freedom is a Disability Rights Issue

By Zoe Brennan-Krohn and Rebecca McCray, ACLU | 06.25.2021

There were many shocking moments in Britney Spears’ 24-minute statement calling for an end to her conservatorship, delivered Wednesday to...

Perspectives

When a child is born: the film lifting the lid on surrogacy, race and disability

By Cath Clarke, The Guardian | 06.24.2021

There are two films called The Surrogate. The first is a made-for-TV movie about an obsessive fan who cons her...

Society

The ‘race realist’ on campus

By Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.24.2021

With one painful exception that she still thinks about today, Marisol Schowengerdt enjoyed her classes at Cal State East Bay.

She...

Eugenics

a microscope and screen on a table with the screen displaying a microscopic image of some embryos

ISSCR: grave omission of age limit for embryo research

By Josephine Johnston, Françoise Baylis, & Henry T. Greely, Nature | 06.22.2021

We are researchers with differing views on the ethics of stem-cell and embryo research who nonetheless share deep concerns about...

Policies

ISSCR: grave omission of age limit for embryo research

By Josephine Johnston, Françoise Baylis & Henry T. Greely, Nature | 06.22.2021

We are researchers with differing views on the ethics of stem-cell and embryo research who nonetheless share deep concerns about...

Stem Cells

MPs urge Government to review regulations for direct-to-consumer genetic testing

By Science and Technology Committee, UK Parliament | 06.22.2021

The popularity of genomics tests sold directly to consumers has increased in recent years, with products focusing on ancestry, health...

Genomics

In world of stem cell research, ‘UC Caucus’ reigns supreme

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 06.21.2021

They could be called the “UC Caucus,” although that may presume too much. Nonetheless, they come from an institution that...

Stem Cells