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

Birth Defects in ART Babies Reviewed

By Lizzie Thelwell, Medical Xpress | 06.04.2014

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Researchers have reviewed current knowledge to further understand the reasons for the increased incidence of birth defects in...

Bioethics

The Genome's Big Data Problem

By Joseph Cox, Mother Board | 06.04.2014

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Medicine will be revolutionised in the 21st century, thanks largely to our increasing understanding and collection of genetic data.

Genetic...

Genomics

Genetic Information is Irrelevant to Most People's Care

By Press Release, GeneWatch UK | 06.04.2014

GeneWatch UK today criticised a speech by the new NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, in which he reportedly argued...

Genetic Selection

Genetics In Court Is a Very Messy Business

By Alexandra Sifferlin, Time | 06.04.2014

The “my genes made me do it” defense is not solely reserved for Law and Order SVU. At least...

Genomics

Making Embryos from 3 People Doesn't Look Unsafe

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 06.03.2014

LONDON (AP) — Britain's fertility regulator says controversial techniques to create embryos from the DNA of three people "do not...

Bioethics

Genetic Tests Suggest STAP Stem Cells ‘Never Existed’

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 06.03.2014

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Reports of a new kind of stem cell, produced by simply stressing mature mouse cells, kicked up a...

Stem Cells

Is the UK Being Too Hasty Over Three-Parent Babies?

By Marcy Darnovsky and Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 06.03.2014

"In a country nervous about genetically modified crops, we are making the foolhardy move to genetically modified babies." So said...

Biopolitics

A Medical Student’s Call for Action Against Research Misconduct

By Eden Almasude, The Hastings Center | 06.03.2014

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According to the KMSP report for which I was interviewed, in 2007 a psychiatric research team led by...

Bioethics