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

Stem cell therapy a primitive art

By Jill Margo, Financial Review | 08.27.2014
Stem cell therapy can be a rough art. That it has only been proven effective for some blood and immune...
Biotech & Pharma

Using Light Technique, Scientists Find Dimmer Switch for Memories in Mice

By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 08.27.2014
Memories and the feelings associated with them are not set in stone. You may have happy memories about your family’s...
Bioethics

Thailand’s Business in Paid Surrogates May Be Foundering in a Moral Quagmire

By Thomas Frank, The New York Times | 08.26.2014
PAK OK, Thailand — Soon after the first surrogate mother from this remote village gave birth, neighbors noticed her new...
Other Countries

British baby Gammy: Surrogate claims mum refused to take disabled twin

By Ellen Wallwork, ParentDish | 08.26.2014
A British surrogate mother of twins has said the intended mother rejected one of the babies because she was born...
Bioethics

When Big Data & Infants' Privacy Collide

By Alison Diana, Information Week | 08.25.2014
For decades, hospitals have conducted blood tests on newborns, checking babies for various conditions, treatable and not. Today's less costly...
Genomics

Medical dilemma of 'three-parent babies': Fertility clinic investigates health of teenagers it helped to be conceived through controversial IVF technique

By Steve Connor, The Independent (UK) | 08.25.2014
A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were...
Assisted Reproduction

Stem Cell Therapy Rogue Operators Charging Thousands for Useless or Dangerous Treatment

By Louise Milligan, ABC | 08.25.2014
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Transcript

CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: It's perfectly rational for someone who is desperately ill...
Bioethics

Will Lowering The Price Of Genetic Testing Raise The Cost Of Medical Care?

By Peter Ubel, Forbes | 08.25.2014

The first time scientists sequenced a person’s entire genome, it took more than a decade and cost hundreds of millions...

Biotech & Pharma