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

New Finding Has Major Implications for Genetic Testing as Researchers Learn that Greater Numbers of Humans Have Multiple Personal Genomes

By Pamela Scherer, Dark Daily | 12.30.2013
Here is a human genome curve ball for pathologists and clinical laboratory scientists engaged in genetic testing in their medical...
Genomics

The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor

By Michael B. Katz, Social Work and Society International Online Journal | 12.24.2013
. . . if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our...
Bioethics

CRISPRs Enlisted to Study Mutations Across an Entire Mammalian Genome

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.24.2013

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have developed a technique to create a comprehensive library of mutations across all...

Animal Biotechnologies

Only High-Risk Women Need Breast Cancer Gene Test: Experts

By Dennis Thompson, US News | 12.23.2013
Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk...
Biotech & Pharma

Doctors' Group Sounds Warning on Freezing Eggs to Buy Time on Your Biological Clock

By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, NBC News | 12.23.2013
Thinking about freezing your eggs to buy yourself a few more baby-making years? Not so fast, says the American College...
Public Opinion

Screening Newborns For Disease Can Leave Families In Limbo

By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 12.23.2013
For Matthew and Brianne Wojtesta, it all started about a week after the birth of their daughter Vera. Matthew was...
Bioethics

Top Science Longreads of 2013

By Ed Yong, National Geographic | 12.23.2013
I’m really optimistic about the future for long, deep, rich science reporting. There are more places that are publishing it...
Global Governance

How Many Donor Offspring are Really Out There?

By Wendy Kramer, Medium | 12.23.2013
In 1988 the Office of Technology Assessment estimated that 30,000 children were born via donor insemination during the year 1986/87...
Global Governance