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

1.7m DNA Profiles Cut From Database

By Press Association, Press Association | 10.24.2013

More than 1.7 million DNA profiles of innocent adults and children have been deleted from the national database, ministers have...

Bioethics

Review: <i>Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense</i>

By Evan Charney, Logos | 10.24.2013

Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber, eds. Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013)

This timely and important...

Media Coverage

Biology's Brave New World

By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs | 10.24.2013
In May 2010, the richest, most powerful man in biotechnology made a new creature. J. Craig Venter and his private-company...
Global Governance

A Former IVF Baby on "Three-Parent IVF"

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 10.24.2013

I have my parents, and biotechnology, to thank for bringing me into this world; I was an IVF baby...

Assisted Reproduction

Brain Decoding: Reading Minds

By Kerri Smith, Nature | 10.23.2013
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated...
Biotech & Pharma

Case Explores Rights of Fetus Versus Mother

By Erik Eckholm, The New York Times | 10.23.2013

JACKSON, Wis. — Alicia Beltran cried with fear and disbelief when county sheriffs surrounded her home on July 18 and...

Bioethics

NIH Requests Comment on Genomic Data Sharing Policy Draft

By Nicolle Strand, The Blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 10.23.2013
Last month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a draft version of its new genomic data sharing policy...
Genomics

An Insider’s Antidote for Dangerous Stem Cell Hype

By Bernadette Tansey, Xconomy | 10.22.2013
UC Davis professor Paul Knoepfler’s new book about stem cells may never break into the New York Times best-seller ranks...
Bioethics