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

Yesterday's War; Tomorrow's Technology

By Nicholas G. Evans and Jonathan D. Moreno, Journal of Law and the Biosciences | 12.15.2014
Abstract below. For full article, see here.

A recent article by Maxwell J. Mehlman and Tracy Yeheng Li, in...
Genetic Selection

The ‘Science’ of Eugenics: America’s Moral Detour

By Marilyn M. Singleton, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons | 12.15.2014

[For references and the original pdf format, see here.]

When most people think of eugenics, they think of the...

U.S. States

Have New Prenatal Tests Been Dangerously Oversold?

By Beth Daley, New England Center for Investigative Reporting | 12.12.2014
Untitled Document

Stacie Chapman’s heart skipped when she answered the phone at home and her doctor — rather than a nurse...

Genomics

Genetic Discrimination Means the Choice Between Life and Life Insurance

By Shimon Koffler Fogel and Bev Heim-Myers, Huffington Post [Canada] | 12.12.2014
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Protecting members of our society from discrimination based on the colour of their skin, ethnicity, or ancestry is...

Other Countries

Study Points to Press Releases as Sources of Hype

By Chris Woolston, Nature News | 12.12.2014
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Researchers love to blame the news media when reports about science are misleading or even wrong. But a...

Media Coverage

Quebec’s IVF restrictions: Economics or ethics?

By MARINA ADSHADE, The Globe and Mail | 12.12.2014

Last week, Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette tabled a bill that, if passed, will prohibit women over the age of...

Technologies

California Launches $50 Million, Fast-Track Stem Cell Drive

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.11.2014
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Directors of the $3 billion California stem cell agency today approved a $50 million plan that will radically...
Fact Sheets

The NFL Has a Problem with Stem Cell Treatments

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.10.2014
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Elite athletes do whatever it takes to win. Lately, that’s meant getting an injection of their own stem...

Biotech & Pharma