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

The Promise and the Reality of Gene Editing

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 10.07.2020

In July 2019, MIT Technology Review took a break from its usual beats, such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology, to...

Human Genetic Modification

Scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for 'genetic scissors'

By Linda Geddes, The Guardian | 10.07.2020

Two scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry for developing the genetic scissors used in gene editing...

Human Genetic Modification

CRISPR’s Adaptation to Genome Editing Earns Chemistry Nobel

By Amanda Heidt, The Scientist | 10.07.2020

^{Illustration © Niklas Elmehed for Nobel Media}

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier...

Human Genetic Modification

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to two women who developed CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing tool

By Ben Guarino, Washington Post | 10.07.2020

A pair of scientists — Jennifer A. Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California at Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier...

Human Genetic Modification

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing

By Katherine J. Wu, Carl Zimmer and Elian Peltier, New York Times | 10.07.2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their 2012...

Human Genetic Modification

Stanford will rename campus spaces named for David Starr Jordan and relocate statue depicting Louis Agassiz

By Chris Peacock, Stanford News | 10.07.2020

Stanford will rename campus features named after David Starr Jordan and take actions to provide the public with a more...

Civil Society

Is it "fraud" when you sell bad sperm as good?

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 10.06.2020

A lot happened last week in the department of problem sperm.

For one thing, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided...

Assisted Reproduction

Gene-Silencing Pesticides Pose New Risks to Health, Environment and Farmers

By Eva Sirinathsinghji, Kendra Klein and Dana Perls, Friends of the Earth | 10.06.2020

WASHINGTON — “Gene-silencing pesticides” now under development pose unique risks to surrounding ecosystems and beneficial insects, including bees, according to...

Synthetic Biology