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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

Epigenetics: The sins of the father

By Virginia Hughes, Nature | 03.05.2014

When Brian Dias became a father last October, he was, like any new parent, mindful of the enormous responsibility that...

Genomics

Sequencing Pioneer's Startup Plans to Promote Better Aging

By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.04.2014

Human genome sequencing pioneer J. Craig Venter has jumped with both feet into biomedical sequencing with his latest venture, Human...

Synthetic Biology

Reproduction 3.0

By Leah Ramsey, Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin | 03.04.2014

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a historic public meeting last week, considering for the first time experiments...

Human Genetic Modification

Hospital Delivery Charges Significantly Higher When Babies Conceived Through Assisted Reproductive Technologies

By Miriam Zoll, Reporting on Health | 03.04.2014

A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that from 2009-2011 in California, hospital delivery...

Biotech & Pharma

The Commercialization of Human Eggs in Mitochondrial Replacement Research

By Donna L. Dickenson, The New Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 1 | 03.04.2014

After the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) in 2007, the pressure to commercialize women’s eggs for stem cell...

Human Cloning

Privatizing Biomedical Citizenship

By Jonathan Kahn, HealthLawProf Blog | 03.03.2014

Genomic research is at an impasse. In the decade since the completion of the first draft of the human genome...

Genomics

A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.03.2014

In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...

Biotech & Pharma

The Rent-a-Womb Boom

By Adrienne Vogt, The Daily Beast | 03.03.2014

They’ve been called “baby factories,” conjuring up images of poor, illiterate women packed into bunks and forced by...

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