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

The Conflict Between Human Rights And Biotechnological Evolution

By Srinivas Raman, Eurasia Review | 04.11.2015
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In 1997, Dolly the sheep became the first mammal ever to be successfully cloned. This was a major...

Biopolitics

Reality Check: Is Sex Crime Genetic?

By Emily Underwood, Science Magazine | 04.09.2015
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A splashy headline appeared on the websites of many U.K. newspapers this morning, claiming that men whose brothers...

Biotech & Pharma

Genetic Engineering & The Future Of Humankind

By Jamie Metzl, IVY Magazine | 04.09.2015
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What would happen if you could order your baby online, the way you might order and customize a...

Bioethics

Genetic Engineering & The Future of Humankind

By Jamie Metzl, Ivy Magazine | 04.09.2015

What would happen if you could order your baby online, the way you might order and customize a pizza? Six...

Human Genetic Modification

Baby Genes to be Mapped at Birth in Medical First

By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 04.08.2015

IF YOU could gaze into a crystal ball and discover whether your newborn baby might have health problems, would you...

Genomics

Human Genetic Engineering Demands more than a Moratorium

By Sheila Jasanoff, J. Benjamin Hurlbut and Krishanu Saha, The Guardian | 04.07.2015
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Assisted Reproduction

Genetic Engineering, Humankind Creeps Toward A 'Planet Of The Apes'

By Laurent Alexandre, World Crunch | 04.07.2015

PARIS — Half-animal, half-human? The astounding developments in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science (NBIC) are posing problems that...

Human Genetic Modification

The Next Manhattan Project

By Patrick Tucker, The Atlantic | 04.07.2015

In June 2012, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin published a paper in the journal Nature about...

Human Genetic Modification