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

Study Probes DNA Search Method that Led to 'Grim Sleeper' Suspect

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 08.15.2013
The state of California has been a leader in the use of familial DNA searches -- investigations that seek out...
Bioethics

Elementary, My Dear Fluffy: Cat DNA Solves Another Homicide

By Alan Boyle, NBC News | 08.14.2013
DNA readings from cat hairs have once again helped crack a homicide case — demonstrating the power of genetic pet...
U.S. Federal

Brown Vetoes Bill Allowing Women to Sell Eggs for Research

By Alex Matthews, Capitol Weekly | 08.14.2013
Gov. Brown vetoed controversial legislation that will allow egg donors to be compensated for oocytes, egg cells, provided for research...
Biopolitics

Should the Humanities Embrace Scientism? My Postmodern Response to Pinker’s Patronizing “Plea”

By John Horgan, Scientific American | 08.14.2013
Damn you, Gary Stix! I was just about to head off on a vacation when my old Scientific American buddy...
Biopolitics

Unhidden Traits: Genomic Data Privacy Debates Heat Up

By Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, Scientific American | 08.14.2013
Earlier this year Yaniv Erlich of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at M.I.T. sent bioethicists into a frenzy when...
Global Governance

US Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics

By Helen Shen, Nature | 08.14.2013
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues...
Biopolitics

California Bill Would Redefine Sperm Donor Rights

By Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.13.2013
California's state Legislature is preparing to battle over a bill that could redefine the family unit and the parental rights...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Whose Stem Cells are They Anyway?

By Editorial, New Scientist | 08.13.2013
THERE'S trouble brewing over stem cells in Texas, and it raises a big question for the future of medicine. How...
U.S. States