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

U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 06.20.2013
The Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes a claim about the absence...
U.S. Federal

Should Women Make a Profit on Donating Their Eggs For Research?

By Larry Mantle, KPCC | 06.20.2013

[To listen to the full radio segment, go here]

The amount of money a woman can receive for donating...

Bioethics

'More Rights, More Inclusion, Better Country': Argentina Approves IVF for All

By Alex Stern, The Huffington Post | 06.20.2013
This post was co-authored with Gamal Serour, M.D.

Earlier this month Argentina joined the list of countries that subsidize in...
Bioethics

New Study Tracks Emotional Health of 'Surrogate Kids'

By Linda Carroll, Today | 06.19.2013
Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered...
Civil Society

Japan to Relax Ban on Chimeric Embryo Experiments

By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.19.2013
TOKYO— A scientist pioneering research toward generating human organs in pigs has cleared one hurdle in gaining approval to continue...
Stem Cells

California Bill Poised to Lift Restrictions on Egg Donation

By Charlotte Schubert, Nature | 06.18.2013
California is set to pass a bill that would allow payments over and above 'direct expenses' to be made to...
Biopolitics

Myriad Ruling Causes Confusion

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.18.2013
There was a party waiting for Elizabeth Chao when she arrived for work last week at Ambry Genetics, a medical-diagnostics...
Biopolitics

Public Invasion of Genetic Privacy For UK Royal Family?

By Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 06.17.2013
The Times newspaper has published a front-page story revealing that the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and his brother Prince...
Global Governance