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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

Ethics Panel Urges Cautious Approach to DNA Testing

By Peter Stanners, The Copenhagen Post | 11.01.2012

As genetic tests become increasingly cheaper, the temptation to take one, principally to find out what illnesses we may be...

Technologies

Have India’s Poor Become Human Guinea Pigs?

By Sue Lloyd-Roberts, BBC News | 10.31.2012

Drug companies are facing mounting pressure to investigate reports that new medicines are being tested on some of the poorest...

Bioethics

Medical Students’ DNA – and Psychology – on Display in Classroom

By Jessica Cussins | 10.31.2012

In a recent CBS News video segment, Eric E. Schadt, chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences...

Technologies

Genetic Breakthrough at OHSU

By Allison Frost, Oregon Public Radio | 10.29.2012

Oregon Health and Science University scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his team have created a viable embryo with the genetic material...

Genetic Selection

Israeli Start-up Wants to Democratize Creation

By Ben Rooney, The Wall Street Journal (blog) | 10.29.2012

TEL AVIV—Technology is a democratizing force, but a digital start-up here in Israel is taking democracy to a new limit...

Bioethics

Why Cheaper Genetic Testing Could Cost Us a Fortune

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.26.2012

Dana Nieder was at a loss. Doctors had been trying to figure out what was wrong with her daughter Maya...

Biotech & Pharma

Frozen Eggs

By Tom Ashbrook, NPR On Point | 10.26.2012

Women freezing their eggs against future infertility – or, as a lifestyle choice. We’ll look at the science and its...

Assisted Reproduction

Human Genetic Modification Experiment in Oregon Shows Promise, Risks, Experts Say

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 10.24.2012

Future generations could be stripped of mutations like hereditary blindness or maternal diabetes, after a breakthrough study at Oregon Health...

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