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

Lord Robert Winston Warning Over Child ‘Eugenics’

By Lyndsay Buckland, Scotsman | 04.11.2013
GENETIC technologies could be exploited in the future to produce more intelligent, stronger and attractive offspring, with better regulation needed...
Genetic Selection

Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale — A Brave New World?

By I. Glenn Cohen and Eli Y. Adashi, The New England Journal of Medicine | 04.10.2013

[For original article with footnotes, see here]

Embryo donation (also known as embryo adoption) is the compassionate gifting of...

Bioethics

Microbes Can Mass-Produce Malaria Drug

By Emily Singer, MIT Technology Review | 04.10.2013
For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of spewing out malaria drugs on...
Biotech & Pharma

Baby Boom: Indian Women Giving Birth to U.S. Babies

By Holly Williams, CBS News | 04.10.2013
(CBS News) ANAND, India -- A lot of businesses go to India for inexpensive labor and it turns out American...
Other Countries

The Right to Speak Out

By Editorial, Nature | 04.09.2013

What do Adam, Eve and the Queen of Sheba have to do with libel reform? Ask David Balding and Mark...

Biopolitics

Genetics: A Gene of Rare Effect

By Stephen S. Hall, Nature | 04.09.2013
When Sharlayne Tracy showed up at the clinical suite in the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...
Genomics

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

By Pete Shanks, Alternet | 04.08.2013

There's a buzz now around bringing species back from the dead. There's even a spiffy new name for it: "de-extinction."...

Genomics

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

By Zhang Wen, Global Times | 04.07.2013
Despite law enforcers shutting down a surrogacy service in the capital last month, similar agencies are still providing the lucrative...
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