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

Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos

By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.17.2021

For decades, science has been trying to unlock the mysteries of how a single cell becomes a fully formed human...

Human Genetic Modification

A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.17.2021

The photographs alone tell a fantastic story—a mouse embryo, complete with beating heart cells, a head, and the beginning of...

Animal Biotechnologies

Scientists Grow Mouse Embryos in a Mechanical Womb

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.17.2021

The mouse embryos looked perfectly normal. All their organs were developing as expected, along with their limbs and circulatory and...

Animal Biotechnologies

Scientists plan to drop the 14-day embryo rule, a key limit on stem cell research

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.16.2021

In 2016, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz grew human embryos in a lab dish for longer than anyone had before. Bathing the tiny...

Assisted Reproduction

The Threat That CRISPR Poses to Disabled People

By Sandy Sufian, BRINK | 03.15.2021

^{Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash}

The gene-editing technology CRISPR promises enormous potential as a therapeutic for curing illnesses, including...

Society

Florida considers banning abortions for women who have fetuses with disabilities

By News Service of Florida, Sun Sentinel | 03.12.2021

TALLAHASSEE — A House panel Thursday backed a bill that would prevent doctors from performing abortions that women seek because...

Policies

Can China’s New Criminal Law Deter the Next He Jiankui?

By Shao Bowen, Sixth Tone | 03.12.2021

The latest edition of China’s criminal law formally came into effect March 1. The updated code includes a range of ...

Animal Biotechnologies

World at ‘peak twin’ as birth rates reach historic high, study finds

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.11.2021

^{Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash}

Twins may be more common today than at any time in history, according to...

Assisted Reproduction