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

Decades Later, Condemnation for a Skid Row Cancer Study

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.17.2013
A medical researcher from Columbia University, Dr. Perry Hudson, made the skid row alcoholics in Lower Manhattan an offer: If...
Human Rights

Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.17.2013
A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that the standard language of life no longer applies. Instead, one of...
Biotech & Pharma

More Young Women Serving as Egg Donors, Report Says

By Melissa Dahl, Today | 10.17.2013
More young women than ever are donating their eggs to help other people become parents, according to a new report...
Bioethics

'Where Did I Come From?' Donor Eggs, Sperm and a Surrogate

By Anndee Hochman, The Inquirer | 10.17.2013
The first time Andrew Botwin said "Daddy," his mother gulped.

Was this the moment Shari Botwin had anguished about ever...
Bioethics

The Rise of Gender Selection among Middle Eastern Couples

By Rachel Williamson, Middle East Monitor | 10.17.2013
Sex selection is a dirty phrase in Western countries, but Middle Eastern couples are jumping on fertility technology as changing...
Other Countries

New DNA Test can Catch Elite Cheats

By Corey Allen, The University of British Columbia | 10.17.2013
Researchers develop easier, faster test to spot blood doping

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new...
Bioethics

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction