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

It’s 10 o'Clock -- Do You Know Where Your Bubonic Plague Is?

By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy | 07.10.2014

In every one of the dozens of bioterrorism meetings I have attended over the last three decades, experts have stated...

Synthetic Biology

Mom's Environment During Pregnancy can Affect her Grandchildren

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 07.10.2014

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Starving a pregnant mouse can cause changes in the sperm of her sons that apparently warp the health...

Human Genetic Modification

The Fault in Our DNA: Reviews of <i>A Troublesome Inheritance</i> and <i>Inheritance</i>

By David Dobbs, The New York Times | 07.10.2014

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In his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came...

Racial Justice

Donated IVF Eggs Linked to Gestational Hypertension

By Mitchel L. Zoler, Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network | 07.08.2014

MUNICH – Women pregnant with an embryo produced by in vitro fertilization of a donated egg developed gestational hypertension at...

Assisted Reproduction

Biotech Reels Over Patent Ruling

By Erika Check-Hayden, Nature News | 07.08.2014

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Guidelines that forbid patents on a wide array of natural products, phenomena and principles have many in the...

Biotech & Pharma

What-Syn-a-Name?

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian | 07.08.2014

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He was looking quite lost. An eminent scientist and UN delegate was stumbling over the meaning of a...

Biopolitics

Would-Be Parents Fleeced, Surrogates Abandoned by Mexican Surrogacy Operation Planet Hospital

By Jane Cowan and Bronwen Reed, ABC [Australia] | 07.08.2014

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An unscrupulous surrogacy operation in Mexico has left clients thousands of dollars out of pocket, and dozens of...

Global Governance

Stem Cell Treatment Causes Nasal Growth in Woman's Back

By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 07.08.2014

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A woman in the US has developed a tumour-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to...

Stem Cells