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

'Shoebox IVF' Hope for Infertile Couples

By Cathy Edwards, BBC | 06.21.2014

Untitled Document

Could an IVF kit that fits in a shoebox and some kitchen cupboard essentials provide hope for people...

Human Rights

'Shoebox IVF' Hope for Infertile Couples

By Cathy Edwards, BBC | 06.21.2014

Untitled Document

Could an IVF kit that fits in a shoebox and some kitchen cupboard essentials provide hope for people...

Human Rights

'Shoebox IVF' Hope for Infertile Couples

By Cathy Edwards, BBC | 06.21.2014

Untitled Document

Could an IVF kit that fits in a shoebox and some kitchen cupboard essentials provide hope for people...

Human Rights

'Shoebox IVF' Hope for Infertile Couples

By Cathy Edwards, BBC | 06.21.2014

Untitled Document

Could an IVF kit that fits in a shoebox and some kitchen cupboard essentials provide hope for people...

Human Rights

Passport Delay Leaves Surrogate Babies Stranded in India

By BBC, BBC | 06.20.2014

Kiran and Bina Salvi, from Bolton, travelled out three months ago to collect their surrogate twins.

Labour MP Julie Hilling...

Biopolitics

Who Owns Your Tissue? You’d be Surprised

By Timothy Caulfield, Toronto Globe and Mail | 06.20.2014

Untitled Document

Who owns your tissue? Do you have a right to control what happens to your cells and all...

Stem Cells

Is Moral Bioehancement Even Possible?

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.20.2014

Untitled Document

A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and founded on gratuitous assumptions.

The...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Female Prison Inmates Sterilized Illegally, California Audit Confirms

By Corey G. Johnson, CFIR | 06.19.2014

Untitled Document

The California state auditor today blasted federal and state oversight of sterilization surgeries for female prison inmates, finding numerous illegal...

Human Rights