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

Scientists, Ethicists Debate Future of Gene Editing

By Karen Pallarito, HealthDay | 12.02.2015

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What if faulty genes in your DNA could be easily corrected, avoiding the ravages of diseases like cystic...

Genetic Selection

This Week, Top Geneticists Want to Decide If GMO Humans Are OK

By Alex Pearlman, VICE Motherboard | 12.02.2015

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The world’s top geneticists met in Washington, DC Tuesday to discuss the future of human genome editing at...

Synthetic Biology

China 'clone factory' scientist eyes human replication

By Rebecca Davis, Agence France Presse | 12.01.2015

Beijing (AFP) - The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he...

Other Countries

Genetically engineered children?

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 12.01.2015

Should powerful new molecular engineering techniques be used to create genetically modified children? This is the question – literally, about...

Genetic Selection

Le génie génétique face au risque eugéniste

By Corine Lesnes, Le Monde | 11.30.2015

En février 1975, un groupe de 150 scientifiques se réunissait à huis clos au centre de conférences d’Asilomar, près de Monterey...

Bioethics

Disgraced clone expert set for big comeback

By Chang May Choon, The Straits Times | 11.30.2015

South Korean stem-cell expert Hwang Woo Suk, who fell from "supreme scientist" status to almost a pariah in cloning research...

Human Cloning

US scientists urge ban on human genetic modification

By Ryan Rifai, Al Jazeera | 11.30.2015

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Some prominent scientists in the US have called for a moratorium or ban on the genetic modification of...

Genetic Selection

Opposition mounts to genetic modification of human embryos

By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 11.30.2015

A group of U.S. scientists and activists on Monday called for a global ban on the use of new tools...

Genetic Selection