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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

Genome editing technologies: some clarifications but no revision of the Oviedo Convention

By Council of Europe, Press Statement | 06.04.2021

At its 18th plenary meeting (1-4 June 2021), the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe adopted the following...

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A complete human genome sequence is close: how scientists filled in the gaps

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 06.04.2021

When the sequencing of the human genome was announced two decades ago by the Human Genome Project and biotech firm...

Genomics
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Which lives matter in reproductive biomedicine?

By Camisha Russell, Reproductive Biomedicine & Society | 06.02.2021

Abstract

The most recent Black Lives Matter moment provides an important opportunity for consideration of the interlocking social and political...

Assisted Reproduction
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Preparing For The Next Generation of Ethical Challenges Concerning Heritable Human Genome Editing

By Robert Klitzman, Bioethics.net | 06.02.2021

On September 5, 2020, the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, established by the U.S...

Human Genetic Modification
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Newer methods may boost gene therapy’s use for more diseases

By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 06.01.2021

Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he...

Human Genetic Modification
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Researchers claim they have sequenced the entirety of the human genome — including the missing parts

By Matthew Herper, STAT | 06.01.2021

An international team of scientists says it has sequenced and assembled the entirety of the human genome, including parts that...

Genomics

The Brave New World: Should we tread down the path to human germline editing?

By Sheetal Soni, South African Journal of Bioethics and Law | 06.01.2021

Gene-editing tools such as the CRISPR-Cas9 system create an opportunity for individuals to have their DNA edited for specific purposes...

Human Genetic Modification
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Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method

By Virginia Hughes, The New York Times | 05.31.2021

New laws in Maryland and Montana are the first in the nation to restrict law enforcement’s use of genetic genealogy...

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