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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

UC Davis: First clinical trial of stem cells to treat spina bifida

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 03.10.2021

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Backed by $17 million in cash from California’s stem cell agency, researchers at UC...

Human Genetic Modification

CRISPR Could Switch Off Chronic Pain Without Opioids

By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 03.10.2021

In 2006, scientists described the curious case of a Pakistani boy who seemed immune to pain. The 10-year-old street performer...

Animal Biotechnologies

Viral vector unlikely to be cause of leukemia in gene therapy patient

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 03.10.2021

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Gene therapy researchers are breathing easier after a company reported today that the modified...

Human Genetic Modification

Parents Are Demanding Surrogates Who Won’t Get the COVID Vaccine

By Carter Sherman, Vice | 03.09.2021

As a health care worker, Jordan McCutcheon could get the COVID-19 vaccine anytime she wants. But the 28-year-old dental...

Assisted Reproduction

We Should All Be Able to Have Babies Like White People

By Andre M. Perry, The Nation | 03.09.2021

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“Push, push, push, Mama; push,” my wife, Joia Crear-Perry, implored. Quiana, angled upright on...

Assisted Reproduction

International Women’s Day: China looks at domestic violence, illegal surrogacy, and paternity leave

By Phoebe Zhang, South China Morning Post | 03.08.2021

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China’s annual parliamentary meetings, the Two Sessions, are under way in Beijing and...

Assisted Reproduction

A biographer and a bioethicist take on the CRISPR revolution

By Jackie Leach Scully, Nature | 03.08.2021

CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans Henry T. Greely, MIT Press (2021)

The Code Breaker: Jennifer...

Human Genetic Modification

NHS to use world's most expensive drug to treat spinal muscular atrophy

By Phoebe Weston, The Guardian | 03.08.2021

The world’s most expensive drug, which treats babies and young children with a rare and often fatal degenerative disorder, will...

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