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...

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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...

U.S. States
stethoscope on baby's back

Bubble Baby Families Denied ‘Compassionate Use’ of Live-Saving Therapy

By David Jensen, Substack | 05.25.2021

Update 5/28: Orchard Exits Life-Saving Bubble-Baby Research in Wake of Flap Over Patient Access

A gene therapy company backed by...

Society
light shining on neuron

Scientists Partially Restored a Blind Man’s Sight With New Gene Therapy

By Carl Zimmer, New York Times | 05.24.2021

Photo by McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 licensed for use under Creative Commons Attributions 2.5

A team of...

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The Risks of Gene Editing

By Stuart A. Newman and M.L. Tina Stevens, The New York Review | 05.23.2021
In response to: Editing Humanity’s Future from the April 29, 2021 issue

In her recent review of four books on...

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hospital bed

These Sisters With Sickle Cell Had Devastating, and Preventable, Strokes

By Gina Kolata and Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times | 05.23.2021

It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday when Dana Jones heard an ominous sound, barely audible over the whirring of...

Perspectives
conference room

Need Public Policy for Human Gene Editing, Heatwaves, or Asteroids? Try Thinking Like a Citizen

By Nicholas Weller, Michelle Sullivan Govani, Mahmud Farooque, Issues in Science and Technology | 05.19.2021

In a ballroom at the Arizona Science Center one afternoon in 2017, more than 70 Phoenix residents—students, teachers, nurses, and...

Civil Society

The Promise and Perils of the New Fertility Entrepreneurs

By Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker | 05.19.2021

France Brunel, who is thirty-six, first considered freezing her eggs after ending a two-year relationship, in 2018. She’s not sure...

Media Coverage
Cholesterol emboli

One-time CRISPR hit lowers cholesterol in monkeys

By Alla Katsnelson, Chemical & Engineering News | 05.19.2021

“Cholesterol emboli” by Boonyarit Cheunsuchon
is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

A single shot of gene therapy lowers “bad”...

Animal Biotechnologies

Decades after a tragic failure, gene therapy successfully treats a rare liver disease

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 05.18.2021

Twenty-two years ago, one of scientists’ first attempts at gene therapy ended in tragedy when a young man died. The...

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