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

Interpol Investigates 'Baby Factory' as Man Fathers 16 Surrogate Children

By Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian | 08.23.2014

Untitled Document

Interpol has launched an investigation into an alleged "baby factory" after it emerged that a Japanese businessman had...

Bioethics

Not-So-Personalized Medicine

By Howard Brody, Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma | 08.23.2014

Jack E. James, who appears to hail from either Reykjavik University in Iceland or the National University of Ireland in...

Biotech & Pharma

Vics to Get Sperm Donor Info with Consent

By The Australian, The Australian | 08.21.2014

THE state government says its world-first legislation will balance the rights of donors with those of donor-conceived people who wish...

Bioethics

California Bill Would Let Birth Certificates Reflect Same-Sex Parents

By Mary Papenfuss, Reuters | 08.20.2014

Birth certificates in California would be changed to more accurately reflect families in which parents are of the same gender...

Civil Society

Microbiology: Microbiome Science Needs a Healthy Dose of Scepticism

By William P. Hanage, Nature | 08.20.2014

Explorations of how the microscopic communities that inhabit the human body might contribute to health or disease have moved from...

Bioethics

Troy Duster’s Garden of Plugged-In Scholarship, and How it Grew

By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | 08.20.2014

Untitled Document

“I once had a very good professor who gave me very bad advice,” UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster...

Bioethics

California Couple Shares Surrogate Story in Wake of Thailand Controversy

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo! Health | 08.19.2014

Untitled Document

When news broke earlier this month about baby Gammy — the newborn with Down syndrome who was left...

Bioethics

High-Risk Brain Research Wins NSF Backing

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 08.18.2014

The National Science Foundation's (NSF’s) role in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is starting to take...

Genomics