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

White pencil made out of a strand of DNA, on a blue background

Join the debate on human genome editing!

By Yeyang Su, Impact Ethics [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.03.2018

At the end of this month, the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing will be held in Hong Kong...

Human Genetic Modification

Person coming out of double helix DNA strand

Was I part British, part Dutch, a little bit Jewish? The oddness of DNA tests.

By Debra Bruno, The Washington Post | 11.03.2018

The other day, Ancestry.com told me that my mother was my mother.

Phew.

I was starting to wonder about some...

Genomics

Editing nature: Scientists call for careful oversight of environmental gene editing

By Yale University, Phys | 11.01.2018

In Burkina Faso, the government is considering the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to eradicate malaria. In Nantucket, Mass., officials...

Synthetic Biology

Researchers launch plan to sequence 66,000 species in the United Kingdom. But that’s just a start

By Erik Stokstad, Science | 11.01.2018

LONDON—In the first attempt of its kind, researchers plan to sequence all known species of eukaryotic life—66,000 species of...

Animal Biotechnologies

Regulators just gave DNA-testing startup 23andMe the go-ahead to offer a health product that scientists have called dubious

By Erin Brodwin , Business Insider | 11.01.2018

Anne Wojcicki, the CEO and founder of the popular Silicon Valley gene-testing company 23andMe, said in mid-October that she didn't...

Genomics

Government using ancestry websites to deport immigrants: lawyer, court documents

By Emanuela Campanella, Global News [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 11.01.2018

The Canadian Border Services Agency is collecting the DNA of immigrants and using ancestry websites to find long-lost family members...

Genomics

Treating ‘genetic privacy’ like it’s just one thing keeps us from understanding people’s concerns

By Angela Chen, The Verge | 10.31.2018

“Genetic privacy” is a complicated concept, and a new study finds that decoding how people feel about the idea is...

Genomics

He Promised to Restore Damaged Hearts. Harvard Says His Lab Fabricated Research.

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.29.2018

For Dr. Piero Anversa, the fall from scientific grace has been long, and the landing hard.

Researchers worldwide once hailed...

Stem Cells