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

No Point in Testing Controversial Stem Cell Treatment, Italian Panel Says

By Laura Margottini, Science | 09.12.2013
ROME—An expert panel that the Italian government asked to come up with a trial design for a controversial Italian stem...
Biopolitics

Consortium Receives $8M to Investigate Molecular Roots of Extreme Aggression

By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 09.12.2013

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The European Union has approved a project aimed at determining the causes of extreme aggressive...

Bioethics

Designer Babies

By Stephanie Robinson, Blog Talk Radio | 09.12.2013

This week on Roundtable with Stephanie Robinson, Stephanie takes on science, the field of genetics and the current dilemma regarding...

Bioethics

Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

By Miriam Zoll and Pamela Tsigdinos, The New York Times | 09.11.2013
ON Sunday in New York City, a trade show called Fertility Planit will showcase the latest inventions in the world...
Genomics

Stem Cells Created in Living Mice

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 09.11.2013
Researchers have reprogrammed adult mouse cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, without the need for a stay in a...
Biotech & Pharma

Republican Lawmakers Criticize Indian Government for Failing to Stop Sex-Selective Abortions

By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press | 09.10.2013
WASHINGTON - Millions of sex-selective abortions in India have skewed gender ratios, and the origins of the problem can be...
Bioethics

Stem-Cell Banks Enable Wealthy to Free 'Backup Version' of their Adult Selves

By Andrew Cave, The Telegraph | 09.09.2013
Claiming to be a world first, the service has been developed by Scéil, part of Cellectis, a French genome technology...
Stem Cells

Stem Cell Treatments Overtake Science

By Laura Beil, The New York Times | 09.09.2013
TIJUANA, Mexico — Maggie Alejos arrived here in June from St. Anne, Ill., with her husband, her daughter and a...
Bioethics