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

‘Brave New World’ Arrives in the Future It Predicted

By Alexis Soloski, The New York Times | 07.13.2020

Ready for a thought experiment?

Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse. Crime is...

Media Coverage

Lab-grown sperm could let infertile men have gene-edited children

By Michael Le Page, NewScientist | 07.12.2020

The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help...

Human Genetic Modification

Supreme Court of Canada upholds genetic non-discrimination law

By Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News | 07.10.2020

Canada's highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance...

Policies

Watching the Whitewash

By John Jackson, Fardels Bear | 07.08.2020

“In the fullness of time” Steve Hsu assures the listeners on a recent podcast (more about the podcast below) Michigan...

Perspectives

Scientists make precise gene edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 07.08.2020

A peculiar bacterial enzyme has allowed researchers to achieve what even the popular CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing system couldn’t manage: targeted changes...

Human Genetic Modification