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

Challenges to Biosecurity From Advances in the Life Sciences

By Sergio Bonin, UN Chronicle | 07.18.2013

“Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing...

Global Governance

UK Medical Research Regulators Spared the Axe

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 07.18.2013

The future of the UK regulating bodies for human-embryo and human-tissue research has been safeguarded, as the government’s announcement yesterday...

Biopolitics

Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?

By Kent Sepkowitz, The Daily Beast | 07.18.2013

Las Vegas has long been the philosophic capital of U.S. commerce, a physical (if hallucinator) reminder that luck does indeed...

Public Opinion

Unregulated Surrogacy Industry Worth Over $2bn Thrives Without Legal Framework

By Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India | 07.18.2013

NEW DELHI: With an unregulated surrogacy industry thriving in India, rich couples are preying on domestic helps and housemaids coercing...

Other Countries

Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits Vary in Predictions of Disease Risk

By Medical Xpress, Medical Xpress | 07.17.2013

An in-depth analysis and comparison study conducted by investigators at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health demonstrated variations in predicted...

Genomics