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

You Don't "Own" Your Own Genes

By Press Release, Weill Cornell Medical College | 03.25.2013

NEW YORK (March 25, 2013) — Humans don't "own" their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are...

U.S. Federal

Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals are More Likely to Reoffend

By Regina Nuzzo, Nature | 03.25.2013
In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to...
Biotech & Pharma

Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions

By Ruha Benjamin, Huffington Post | 03.25.2013
The old photograph struck me immediately. The caption read: "Ella Tyree, 29, inject[ing] atomic materials into animals to determine effects...
Biotech & Pharma

Sperm Donor with Genetic Illness Speaks Out

By PS, The Copenhagen Post | 03.25.2013
A former sperm donor may have passed on a heritable and treatable cancer-causing illness to half of the children created...
Other Countries

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel

By Rebecca Skloot, The New York Times | 03.23.2013
LAST week, scientists sequenced the genome of cells taken without consent from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She was a...
Bioethics

Surrogacy's Painful Path to Parenthood

By Julia Medew, The Age | 03.23.2013
When Sam Everingham employed an Indian surrogate to carry a child for him in 2009, he never imagined losing two...
Other Countries

Resurrected Mammoths and Dodos? Don't Count on it

By David Ehrenfeld, The Guardian | 03.23.2013
I recently spoke at Revive & Restore's TEDx DeExtinction event at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington DC. Most...
Human Cloning

Doctors Should Tell Patients About Some, But Not All, Unexpected Genetic Findings

By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 03.22.2013
On Thursday, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommended that doctors tell patients about certain genetic disease risks...
Bioethics