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

Is Modern Technology Killing Us?

By Erica Etelson, Truthout | 09.19.2014

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"Science now makes all things possible . . . but it does not thereby make all possible things...

Biotech & Pharma

A New Generation of GMOs

By Josie Garthwaite, Ensia | 09.18.2014

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Thousands of researchers will descend on Boston this fall for an event billed as the world’s largest gathering...

Genetic Selection

Three-Parent Babies: It's More Messy Than we Thought

By Editorial, New Scientist | 09.18.2014

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IN A few weeks, the UK is set to decide whether to become the first country to allow...

Genomics

MacArthur Grant Sheds Light on Reproductive Technologies

By Elayne Clift, Sentinel Source | 09.18.2014

A couple has had miscarriages, considered in-vitro fertilization, discussed adoption and finally opted for a surrogate to bear their baby...

Biopolitics

Under the Skin

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.18.2014

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade
Penguin: 2014.
ISBN: 978-1594204463

Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in...

Bioethics

Surrogates and Couples Face a Maze of Laws, State by State

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 09.17.2014

When Crystal Kelley, a Connecticut woman who had signed a contract to bear a baby for a couple in her...

Assisted Reproduction

If We Create Life, Who Will Control It?

By Marcelo Gleiser, NPR | 09.17.2014

Perhaps I shouldn't have used a conditional in the title. After all, we are already creating life.

Recently, Craig Venter...

Global Governance

On the Irreversibility of Gene Drives

By Noam Prywes, The Scientist | 09.16.2014

In 2008 it was proposed to the Geological Society of London that we had entered a new geological era, the...

Global Governance