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

Synthetic Biologists and Conservationists Open Talks

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 04.16.2013

Australian scientists made headlines last month when they revealed that they were close to cloning a frog, Rheobatrachus silus...

Bioethics

New “Semisynthetic” Anti-Malarial Drug is Unneeded and Sets Dangerous Precedent While Threatening Farmer Livelihoods

By Press Release, SynBioWatch | 04.15.2013

SynBioWatch Press Release:

For Immediate Release

April 15, 2013

Contact: Lisa Archer, Gopal Dayaneni, or Tina Stevens, , (510) 982-1285...

Bioethics

Supreme Court Critical of Patents on Human Genes

By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times | 04.15.2013

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices said Monday they were highly skeptical of the idea that a company or a...

Genomics

Watching the Watchers: Lessons From the Science of Science Advice

By Sheila Jasanoff, The Guardian | 04.15.2013

Institutions that play a watchdog role in society offer a persistent challenge for democracy: who shall watch the watchers? We...

Biopolitics

Egg Freezing: WTF?*

By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor, The Feminist Wire | 04.14.2013

Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying to balance...

Biotech & Pharma

IVF And The Legacy Of Its Inventors

By John Farrell, Forbes | 04.12.2013

Robert G. Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for co-developing in-vitro fertilization, has died this week. He...

Bioethics

Synthetic anti-malarial compound is bad news for artemisia farmers

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian [UK] | 04.12.2013

In the constant fight between microbes and people, attempts to rein in the malarial parasite have just taken an interesting...

Synthetic Biology

Who should own DNA? All of us

By Marcy Darnovsky and Karuna Jaggar, Los Angeles Times | 04.12.2013

Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights