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

Jury awards $15 million in landmark case over embryos, eggs destroyed in fertility clinic tank failure

By Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post | 06.11.2021

The devastating news landed in the inboxes of the fertility clinic patients early one morning in March 2018.

A tank...

U.S. Federal

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, here's what you need to know

By Annabelle Spranklen, Glamour | 06.10.2021

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, says regulator

Fertility clinics have been warned that they...

Policies

Are gene-editing technologies traditional? Not if they are linked to intellectual rights

By Kathleen Garnett, A Bigger Conversation | 06.09.2021

As we await the report on the UK government’s public consultation on ‘The Regulation of Genetic Technologies’ it is a...

Synthetic Biology

20 years after the human genome was first sequenced, dangerous gene myths abound

By Philip Ball, The Guardian | 06.09.2021

Twenty years ago, the science journal Nature published the first draft of the human genome: the sequence of chemical “letters”...

Society

a scientist doing lab research in a sterile environment

Expanding Biolab Complex in Berkeley Has Residents Worried

By Sharon Lerner, Lee Fang, The Intercept [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.09.2021

The Bayer Corporation has made it clear that the creation of a biological research facility on its waterfront property in Berkeley, California, will...

Bioethics

Unproven stem cell interventions: A global public health problem requiring global deliberation

By Zubin Master, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, and Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, Stem Cell Reports | 06.08.2021

The unproven stem cell intervention (SCI) industry is a global health problem. Despite efforts of some nations, the industry continues...

Policies

“Emotional choreography” and the cross-border egg trade

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 06.08.2021

I've written a fair amount about egg donation over the years and have interviewed donors who travelled places to do...

Assisted Reproduction

pipette and petrie dish under a microscope lens

Human Embryo Research Beyond 14 Days? International Perspectives

By Sheetal Soni and Françoise Baylis, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 06.07.2021

Five years ago, independent research teams in the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in cultivating human embryos in...

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