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

Can We Patent Life?

By Michael Specter, The New Yorker | 04.02.2013

On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk, who had recently invented the polio vaccine, appeared on the television news show "See...

Biotech & Pharma

Not every woman should get the BRCA gene test, U.S. task force says

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 04.01.2013

Certain mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes can increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer or ovarian cancer...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sex-Selective Discrimination Common in Indian Wombs: US Study

By Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times | 03.31.2013

Indian women carrying male foetuses are likelier to receive pre-natal medical care than their counterparts pregnant with girls, a new...

Other Countries

New Technology Can Make It So 1 Baby Has 3 Parents

By CBS, CBS New York [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.29.2013

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New technology could bring babies into the world with three biological parents. The procedure is close...

Human Genetic Modification

Biological Computer Created at Stanford

By Lisa Krieger, Mercury News | 03.29.2013

A team of Stanford engineers has made a simple computer inside a living cell, where it could detect disease, warn...

Synthetic Biology

Designer Babies [video]

By Mike Sacks, HuffPost Live | 03.29.2013

Human Genetic Modification

UK May Be Close To Approving Nuclear Transfer Technique for IVF

By John Farrell, Forbes | 03.28.2013

The conception of children who share the genes of three parents could be one step closer to reality.

Last week...

Human Genetic Modification

Indian Women Stand Up to Husbands Who Demand Sex-Selective Abortions

By Carl Gierstorfer, The Atlantic | 03.28.2013

Selvi holds her tiny baby girl somewhat clumsily in her arms. She carefully strokes the thin legs of the helpless...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights