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

After 23andMe, Another Personal Genetics Firm Is Charged with False Advertising

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 01.11.2014

It sounded like a miracle of science and convenience: swab your cheek and drop the saliva sample in the mailbox...

Genomics

Sex Selection Issue Continues To Haunt Indo-Canadian Community With Data Showing High Ratio Of Boys

By The Link, The Link | 01.11.2014

VANCOUVER – Community and health leaders are calling for an open dialogue about the cultural values that lead to sex...

Other Countries

Gene doping: Sport's biggest battle?

By Tim Franks, BBC News | 01.11.2014

This could be a battle like no other in sport. The authorities are so concerned, they have been preparing for...

Global Governance

Can a Blind Person Be a Racist? [Excerpt]

By Osagie Obasogie, Scientific American | 01.10.2014

Adapted from Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind, by Osagie K. Obasogie. Published by...

Disability Rights

Problem with DNA robot led to Denver police DNA mix-up

By Sadie Gurman, Denver Post | 01.10.2014

A malfunction in a DNA processing machine led to the scrambling of samples from 11 Denver police burglary cases, officials...

Genomics

Doctor suspended for stem cell treatment

By Nigel Duara, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 01.10.2014

The Oregon Medical Board has issued a rare emergency suspension of a Eugene physician's license after the doctor conducted experimental...

Stem Cells

Racism Accelerates Aging In African-American Men, New Study Suggests

By Macrina Cooper-White, The Huffington Post | 01.08.2014

Scientists have long known that experiencing racism is bad for your health. In fact, racial discrimination has been linked to...

Racial Justice

Some Data, Please

By Genome Web, Genome Web | 01.08.2014

A company and its former subsidiary have settled with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the companies' advertising...

U.S. Federal