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

Could Glow-in-the-Dark Tobacco Plants Light Up the Living Rooms of the Future?

By Kristin Hohenadel, Slate | 01.15.2014

Glowing plants - as seen in the seemingly fantastical flora of the 2009 film Avatar - are no longer just...

Genomics

Illegal abortion of female foetuses by some ethnic groups who favour sons has reduced female population

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.15.2014

Sex selection abortions are taking place in some ethnic communities in Britain and the practice is so widespread it has...

Genetic Selection

Cloning comeback

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 01.14.2014

The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation nestles on a wooded hillside in Guro, a district on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul...

Stem Cells

China cloning on an 'industrial scale'

By David Shukman, BBC News | 01.13.2014

You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in rolling hills in...

Animal Biotechnologies

The Case for De-Extinction: Why We Should Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

By Stewart Brand, e360 | 01.13.2014

Sequenceable DNA can be recovered from museum specimens and some fossils of extinct species. That discovery in the 1980s set...

Animal Biotechnologies

The Case Against De-Extinction: It’s a Fascinating but Dumb Idea

By Paul R. Ehrlich, e360 | 01.13.2014

Wouldn’t it be great to have vast herds of mammoths roaming the Canadian tundra, or a thrill to see flocks...

Animal Biotechnologies

Testing times for the consumer genetics revolution

By Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 01.13.2014

IT'S 2008. The New Yorker is chronicling a celebrity "spit party", at which notables – nicknamed the "Spitterati" – eject...

Genomics

Aiming to Push Genomics Forward in New Study

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.13.2014

Here comes genomics, Take 2.

Pharmaceutical companies invested heavily in genetic studies in the frenzy after the sequencing of the...

Biotech & Pharma