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

A 'family spat' spills out in public, as scientists debate effort to build a human genome

By Andrew Joseph, STAT News | 06.04.2016
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NEW YORK — Harvard Medical School’s George Church and Stanford University’s Drew Endy are top scientists who have...

Bioethics

The Problem With Super-Muscly Pigs

By Judith Benz-Schwarzburg & Arianna Ferrari, Slate | 06.03.2016

Animal research is moving rapidly in two divergent directions.

Research on animal cognition, behavior, and welfare is teaching us that...

Other Countries

Scientists Say They Hope To Create A Human Genome In The Lab

By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.02.2016
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A group of scientists say they want work toward being able to create a synthetic version of the...

Human Genetic Modification

Scientists Announce HGP-Write, Project to Synthesize the Human Genome

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.02.2016
Untitled Document Scientists on Thursday formally announced the start of a 10-year project aimed at vastly improving the ability to...
Genomics
Image: Character posing with Autodesk Mudbox software, via Flickr. Autodesk is going "all in" with the HGP-Write moonshot.

25 Scientists Just Made A $1 Billion Pitch To Build A Human Genome From Scratch

By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 06.02.2016
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It’s time to build a synthetic human genome, say a group of famous scientists in an article published...

Genomics

California's StemCells, Inc., Flatlines; A Look at the Implications

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.01.2016
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Highlights
Layoffs, clinical trial closed
Conflicts of interest
Implications for CIRM
Risk and stem cell research


Twenty years...

Genomics

The False Promise of DNA Testing

By Matthew Schaer, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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One evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through...

U.S. States

Genes Are Overrated

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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In the Darwinian struggle of scientific ideas, the gene is surely among the select. It has become the...

Genomics