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

Pluristem: Second Patient With ‘Life-Saving’ Cells Died

By David Wainer, Business Week | 11.09.2012

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (PSTI) said a second of the three patients given the company’s experimental stem cells has...

Biotech & Pharma

Social Codes: Sharing Your Genes Online

By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 11.09.2012

Genes are going mobile. In September, consumer genomics company 23andMe announced it was opening its API, the program that allows...

Biotech & Pharma

Direct-to-Consumer Genomics Reinvents Itself

By Malorye Allison, Nature | 11.08.2012

By putting its foot in the door at the FDA, can 23andMe reinvigorate direct-to-consumer genomics? Malorye Allison investigates.

In July...

Genomics

Concern Over 'Souped Up' Human Race

By Michelle Roberts, BBC News | 11.08.2012

A race of humans who can work without tiring and recall every conversation they've ever had may sound like science...

Bioethics

Good Egg

By Jenna Brogan, Good Times | 11.07.2012

Standing 5-foot-8-inches, and weighing in at 130 pounds, Santa Cruz resident Raquel Cool hardly stands out in a crowd—but she’s...

Assisted Reproduction

British Academics Say Technological Enhancements to Employees Raise Ethical Questions

By Raphael Satter, Washington Post | 11.07.2012

LONDON — Performance-boosting drugs, powered prostheses and wearable computers are coming to an office near you — but experts warned...

Bioethics

Un-Mainstreaming Human Enhancement

By Charles T. Rubin, The New Atlantis | 11.07.2012

America’s Grey Lady, the New York Times, has long been willing to take transhumanist topics seriously, perhaps in some...

Bioethics

Opinion: Science in the Courtroom

By James Tabery, The Scientist | 11.06.2012

Scientific evidence concerning the biological causes of bad behavior is becoming increasingly common in the courtroom. Forensic psychiatrists at Vanderbilt...

Civil Society