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

Worlds, and Wombs, Collide in Kansas Bill Criminalizing Surrogate Pregnancy Contracts

By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 02.05.2014

In late January, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill that would have criminalized the use of surrogate contracts...

U.S. States

On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts

By Sophia Seawell, Bluestockings Magazine | 02.04.2014
Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at...
Bioethics

New Rule Allows Patients to Get Test Results Directly From Labs, Without Doctors’ Clearance

By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post | 02.03.2014
Patients may obtain their test results directly from the laboratory that produced them, without having to go through their doctors...
Bioethics

Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 02.03.2014
Her first thought after she heard the news, after she screamed and made her mother and boyfriend leave the room...
Genomics

Ireland Publishes Draft Surrogacy Legislation

By Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews | 02.03.2014

Untitled Document The Irish Government has agreed to put forward proposals for a wide-ranging bill that features provisions on surrogacy...

Other Countries

Global Patent War Looms With Epoch-Making Discovery of STAP Cells

By Tatsuyuki Kobori and Akiyoshi Abe, The Asahi Shimbun | 02.03.2014
Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata's recent breakthrough in the creation of pluripotent stem cells in mice is set to trigger an...
Biopolitics

The Baby-Making Business: on the front lines of Toronto’s booming, semi-legal surrogacy market

By Alison Motluk, Toronto Life | 02.03.2014
Cindy Wasser’s first date with Chris Blake, the man who would become her husband, was a disaster. He tripped on...
Other Countries

Poll Shows We Want Those DNA Breakthroughs But Worry Scientists May Be 'Playing God'

By Emily Swanson, Huffington Post | 02.02.2014
Most Americans are excited about the possibility of scientific breakthroughs brought by DNA research, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But...
Bioethics