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

Can We Reverse the Ageing Process by Putting Young Blood into Older People?

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 08.04.2015

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On an August morning in 2008, Tony Wyss-Coray sat in a conference room at the Veterans Affairs hospital...

Biopolitics

The ethical and social concerns of modifying our DNA

By Devin Powell, Washington Post | 08.03.2015

Ethical and social concerns about modifying DNA include whether parents have a right to tweak the genetic makeup of their...

Human Genetic Modification

Bioethical Silence & Black Lives

By Derek Ayeh, Voices in Bioethics | 08.03.2015

When confirmation was released that researchers from China had genetically modified human embryos for the first time ever, there was...

Racial Justice

Are Milder IVF Methods the Way Forward?

By Ruth Wood, The Telegraph | 08.03.2015

Crystal the chihuahua is a reminder to Mandy Bond of how she almost gave up on becoming a mother. She...

Bioethics

'Gene Drive': Scientists Sound Alarm Over Supercharged GM Organisms Which Could Spread in the Wild and Cause Environmental Disasters

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 08.02.2015

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A powerful new technique for generating “supercharged” genetically modified organisms that can spread rapidly in the wild has...

Bioethics

Price and Prejudice: How Ads for Egg Donation are Starting to Sound like Matrimonials

By Ipsita Chakravarty, Scroll.in | 08.02.2015

The advertisement was seeking a woman with a “high intelligence quotient, fair or wheatish complexion, between 22-26 yrs. Preferably B...

Other Countries

Four Problems with the DNA Database

By Sharon Fernandes, Times of India | 08.02.2015

Untitled Document India's Human DNA Profiling Bill 2015 proposes to set up a national DNA database of criminals that will...

Bioethics

UC Irvine to Exhibit Artworks Created via Biological Engineering

By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times | 07.31.2015

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UC Irvine has put out a call for artists who want to manipulate the building blocks of life...

Bioethics