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

Former CEO of California Stem Cell Agency Named to Board of Firm that Received $19 Million From the Agency

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.07.2014
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Alan Trounson, the former president of the $3 billion California stem cell agency, today was named to...
Stem Cells

Seedy Tale: Chinese Researchers Stole Patented Corn, U.S. Prosecutors Allege

By Mara Hvistendahl, Science | 07.07.2014
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The court documents read like something out of a Coen brothers film. Employees of the Chinese agricultural company...

Other Countries

Scientists Threaten to Boycott €1.2bn Human Brain Project

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 07.06.2014
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The world's largest project to unravel the mysteries of the human brain has been thrown into crisis with...

Biopolitics

Coming to U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry It

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 07.05.2014
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At home in Lisbon, a gay couple invited friends over to a birthday celebration, and at the end...

LGBTQI

China Approves DNA-Sequencing Devices to Detect Genetic Defects in Unborn Babies

By Angela Meng, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2014
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The mainland has lifted the controversial ban on medical diagnostic products that can help detect birth defects in...

Genetic Selection

Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers

By Richard Van Noorden, Nature News | 07.03.2014
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The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt...

Civil Society

Research Integrity: Cell-Induced Stress

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.03.2014
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It seemed almost too good to be true — and it was. Two papers1, 2 that...

Animal Biotechnologies

We're Already Designing Babies

By Olga Khazan, The Atlantic | 07.03.2014
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ASPEN, Colo.—A new type of in-vitro fertilization procedure allows doctors to transfer the mitochondrial DNA from one woman...

Bioethics