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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

Drifting Away from Informed Consent

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

Bioethics

Drifting Away from Informed Consent in the Era of Personalized Medicine

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

Genomics

Drifting Away from Informed Consent in the Era of Personalized Medicine

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

Genomics

Genome Researchers Raise Alarm Over Big Data

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 07.07.2015

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The computing resources needed to handle genome data will soon exceed those of Twitter and YouTube, says a...

U.S. States

Our Focus on the Future Present

By Jacob Corn, Innovative Genomics Initiative blog | 07.06.2015

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It’s been a rather wild ride in the last month, which hasn’t left much time for blog posts. But...

Bioethics

Infertile Couples Hope New Technology Helps Select Most Successful Embryos

By Michelle Munz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 07.05.2015

The video is about 30 seconds long. Dawn Guhe has watched it at least 100 times. It captures the first...

Bioethics

India's Draft Surrogacy Bill Proposes that Would-Be Parents Pay a Bond

By Amrit Dhillon, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2015

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Two years after it was first mooted, India is close to finalising a draft bill to regulate the...

Bioethics

Surrogate Children Get Legal Recognition in France

By Philippe Sotto, Time | 07.03.2015

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France’s highest court has granted legal recognition to surrogate children, in a major turnaround that will make their...

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