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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

Gene editing: Is era of designer humans getting closer?

By Fergus Walsh, BBC | 12.03.2015

An international meeting of leading scientists has said it would be "irresponsible" to allow the creation of genetically altered humans...

Human Genetic Modification

Scientists Seek Moratorium on Edits to Human Genome That Could Be Inherited

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 12.03.2015

An international group of scientists meeting in Washington called on Thursday for what would, in effect, be a moratorium on...

Human Genetic Modification

Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries

By John Markoff, The New York Times | 12.03.2015

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SEATTLE — Computer data has been depicted as microscopic magnetic smudges, electric charges and even Lilliputian patterns of...

Genomics

No designer babies, but summit calls for cautious research

By Lauran Neergaard, AP | 12.03.2015

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A tool to edit human genes is nowhere near ready to use for pregnancy —...

Genetic Selection

Florida Police Used a Smidgen of DNA to try to Fully Reconstruct an Alleged Criminal's Face

By Erin Brodwin, Business Insider | 12.02.2015

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A genetics company called Parabon Nanolabs recently analyzed some remnants of DNA from a crime scene — not for fingerprints, but to create a...

Genomics

The major concern about a powerful new gene-editing technique that most people don't want to talk about

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 12.02.2015

Scientists, bioethicists, and members of the public have descended on Washington, DC this week for an international meeting to discuss...

Human Genetic Modification

Gene Editing: How much justice delayed or denied?

By Nicholas G. Evans, Impact Ethics | 12.02.2015

The International Summit on Human Gene Editing: A Global Discussion is a three-day event convened by the Chinese Academy of...

Human Genetic Modification

Can Biometrics Solve the Refugee Debate?

By Katie Worth, PBS Frontline | 12.02.2015

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Of all the doors into the United States, the one that refugees must pass through is perhaps the most...

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