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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

Breast Cancer Genes and Patient Protection in an Era of Personalized Medicine

By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 03.20.2014

Genetic testing is often heralded as a cornerstone in an imminent and exciting new age of personalized medicine, in which...

Genomics

Is Ed Houben Europe's Most Virile Man?

By BBC, BBC News | 03.19.2014

In a farm house in north-western Germany, heated by a lively fire in a wood-burning stove, a bulky and bespectacled...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Technology: The $1,000 Genome

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 03.19.2014

In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton. Intel...

Genomics

Google Invites Geneticists to Upload DNA Data to Cloud

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.18.2014

Googling a person is about to take on a completely new meaning.

The Mountain View search giant recently invited geneticists...

Biotech & Pharma

National Perinatal Association Urges IVF Clinics to Reduce Infant Health Risks and Costs by Prioritizing Elective Single Embryo Transfer

By Press Release, National Perinatal Association | 03.17.2014

Binghamton, NY –For the first time in its history, the National Perinatal Association (NPA), representing U.S. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit...

Bioethics

Abbott Launches Sweeping Review of IVF Ethics

By Sunshine Coast Daily, Sunshine Coast Daily [Australia] | 03.17.2014

THE ethical rules governing the use of egg and sperm donations, embryos, surrogacy and sex selection for IVF patients could...

Assisted Reproduction

Can You Pass the (Deoxyribonucleic) Acid Test?

By Center for Environmental Health, Center for Environmental Health [with CGS's Pete Shanks] | 03.17.2014

For just $99, genetic test company 23andme offered to test your DNA for everything from heart disease risk to your...

Assisted Reproduction

OPP Faces Scrutiny Over DNA Testing Sweep that Brought Racial-Profiling Complaint

By Tim Alamenciak, The Star | 03.17.2014

Ontario’s police watchdog has launched a review of the DNA sampling practices of the Ontario Provincial Police after a complaint...

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