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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
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Why an IVF Bill Is the Next Fault Line for the French Republic

By Camille Robcis, The Washington Post | 10.14.2019

Since 1994, France has banned surrogacy and restricted access to reproductive technologies to heterosexual couples who have been married or...

Assisted Reproduction
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Critics Unmoved by Economic Report; Still Say No More Billions for California's Stem Cell Agency

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.10.2019

This week's relatively rosy report on the economic impact of California's $3 billion stem cell research program has not convinced...

Stem Cells
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Sperm Donor Sues Because His Medical School Misused His Sperm

By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 10.09.2019

Thanks to the emergence of affordable home DNA testing, we are now constantly learning surprising news relating to family connections...

Assisted Reproduction

State Stem Cell Agency Hails Sales Tax Revenue, Job Growth as It Nears End of Life

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.09.2019

The state stem cell agency, which is expected to run out of taxpayer money by the end of this year...

Stem Cells
line drawings depicting apes evolving into a human

How Science has Shifted Our Sense of Identity

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 10.08.2019

In the iconic frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863), primate skeletons march across...

Civil Society
Bottles of IVF hormones and a pile of syringes

The Business of IVF: How Human Eggs Went from Simple Cells to a Valuable Commodity

By Catherine Waldby, The Conversation | 10.03.2019

I think they collected […] maybe, six eggs. I think we got four embryos out of that […] One was...

Assisted Reproduction
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U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA from Detained Immigrants

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

The Trump administration is moving to collect DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people booked into federal immigration custody...

Genomics
Book cover for "Altered Inheritance" featuring text and two difference colored eyes

A New Book Offers an Introduction to the Ethical Dimensions of Germline Gene Editing

By Adam Hayden, Science | 09.30.2019

With Altered Inheritance, bioethicist Françoise Baylis has authored a vivid call to action that “aims to bridge the divides...

Human Genetic Modification