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

Govt Proposes to Bring Bill to Regulate Surrogacy: Azad

By The Hindu, The Hindu | 03.19.2013

The government on Tuesday said it proposes to bring a Bill to monitor the services of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)...

Assisted Reproduction

A Stealthy De-Extinction Startup

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.19.2013
Two of biotechnology’s most prolific and far-sighted researchers say they’re teaming up to start a company that intends to rewrite...
Human Cloning

Pregnancy After 50: Using Egg, Embryo Donations to Extend a Woman’s Reproductive Life

By Sharon Kirkey, Calgary Herald | 03.17.2013
Healthy postmenopausal women shouldn’t be discouraged from pursuing pregnancy using donor eggs or embryos, one of the world’s largest organizations...
Bioethics

Most Popular Human Cell in Science Gets Sequenced

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.15.2013

The research world’s most famous human cell has had its genome decoded, and it’s a mess. German researchers this week...

Genomics

The Narcissism of De-Extinction

By Hannah Waters, Scientific American | 03.15.2013
The TedxDeExtinction conference, discussing how and whether to resurrect extinct species from DNA, is happening right now, today, on the...
Human Cloning

Eugenics Fear Over Gene Modification

By David King et al., The Guardian | 03.15.2013

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is considering whether to recommend legalisation of "mitochondrial replacement" techniques designed to avoid the...

Genetic Selection

‘Business has Boomed’: Canadian Surrogacy Agent Facing 27 Charges Continues her Controversial Work

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 03.13.2013

A surrogacy agent facing 27 charges under a precedent-setting RCMP prosecution continues to forge ahead with her controversial work, offering...

Other Countries

DNA Tool Kit Goes Live Online

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.12.2013
The latest shopping website is open for business, offering unusual wares: DNA tools to help biologists to engineer life.

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Biotech & Pharma