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

Studying How The Blind Perceive Race

By Kat Chow, NPR | 09.29.2013

Law professor Osagie Obasogie walked into a movie theater to see "Ray," a biopic about the musician Ray Charles, and...

Public Opinion

30 Years Later, A MacArthur 'Genius' Reflects

By Kat Chow, WGBH News | 09.26.2013

On Wednesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its newest class of fellows — "geniuses" who have made remarkable contributions to their...

Public Opinion

On Designer Babies

By Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts Medicine, Summer 2013 | 09.25.2013
You may remember a short period in the 1990s when a broad consensus emerged among biologists about the ethics of...
Genetic Selection

Unlicensed Doctor who 'Sold Hope to Patients who had None' Sentenced

By Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal | 09.24.2013
Alfred Sapse, an unlicensed physician described as a “modern-day Dr. Frankenstein,” was sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal prison...
Biotech & Pharma

Gene Therapy With a Difference

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.23.2013
Terri Ellsworth is convinced that her 12-year-old son Billy, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is being helped by an experimental...
Bioethics

Wealthy Chinese Seek U.S. Surrogates for Second Child, Green Card

By Alexandra Harney, Reuters | 09.23.2013
Wealthy Chinese are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in...
Assisted Reproduction

More DNA Samples, More Debate

By Erica E. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal | 09.23.2013
Law-enforcement agencies in many places routinely take DNA samples from people convicted of murder and other violent crimes. But here...
Biotech & Pharma

Welsh Police Take DNA Samples from more than 5,500 Children

By James McCarthy, Wales Online | 09.22.2013

A one-year-old baby is among thousands of children who have had their DNA taken by police officers in Wales.

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