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
Asilomar State Beach photograph

Asilomar Déjà Vu?

By Tina Stevens and Stuart A. Newman, A Bigger Conversation | 02.06.2025

Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash

In June 1971, Robert Pollack, a young researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, phoned...

Human Genetic Modification
a photo of Simone and Malcolm Collins

The couple who want to make America procreate again

By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

It's a...

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Egg Donation: A Victory for Reproductive Justice or Another Handmaid’s Tale?

By Chantal Bittner, Bill of Health | 02.04.2025

One of the central topics of the election campaign was undoubtedly abortion—a key issue in the fight for reproductive justice...

Policies
a photo of a gloved hand handling a Petri dish in a laboratory

CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says

By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid, Reuters | 02.03.2025

Photo by Drew Hays on Unsplash

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers...

Bioethics
stem cell

Stem cell companies and co-founders lose multi-million dollar lawsuit

By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 02.03.2025

Following a lengthy litigation, the co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America and related companies have been prohibited from...

Policies
graphic of DNA

Taking responsibility: Asilomar and its legacy

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Science | 01.30.2025

In February 1975, leading molecular biologists gathered at the Asilomar conference center on the California coast to evaluate risks of...

Genomics
biotech graphic

A Less Brutal Alternative to IVF

By Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic | 01.27.2025

After my 20th shot of hormones, I texted my boyfriend, only half kidding, “I’m dying.” We had decided to freeze...

Patents & Other IP
embryo graphic on blue background

Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.26.2025
Mass-producing eggs and sperm in a laboratory in order to have a baby with yourself or three other people in...
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