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

Proposed Gene Technology Could Alter Organisms in Wild

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014

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A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...

Environmentalism

California Lawsuit Charges StemCells, Inc., with Putting Patients at Risk

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.17.2014

Untitled Document

A former senior manager at StemCells, Inc., which holds a $19.4 million award from the California stem...

Stem Cells

Proposed Gene Technology Could Alter Organisms in Wild

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014

Untitled Document

A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...

Environmentalism

Closing the Information Gap on International Surrogacy

By Elayne Clift, Women's Media Center | 07.16.2014

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Beth G. had eight miscarriages before she and her partner considered in vitro fertilization (IVF). The couple also...

Assisted Reproduction

C.D.C. Director Admits to Pattern of Unsafe Practices

By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 07.16.2014

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Under sharp questioning from members of Congress on Wednesday, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease...

Environmentalism

California Lawsuit Charges StemCells, Inc., with Putting Patients at Risk

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.16.2014

Untitled Document

A former senior manager at StemCells, Inc., which holds a $19.4 million award from the California stem...

Stem Cells

In Thailand, Baby Gender Selection Loophole Draws China, HK Women to IVF Clinics

By Byron Kaye and Khettiya Jittapong, Reuters | 07.15.2014

Untitled DocumentAt 26, with a baby daughter, a Hong Kong mother and her husband wanted a second child. To...

Genetic Selection

Thousands of Scots Children Have Their DNA Stored on Police Database

By STV, STV | 07.15.2014

Thousands of Scottish children are having their DNA stored on police computers, new figures have revealed.

The total number of...

Technologies