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

Personal Genomics in the Classroom: Students Sequence Themselves

By Monya Baker, Nature News Blog | 10.11.2012

Medical and graduate students will get the chance to sequence and interpret their own genomes in what is being billed...

Bioethics

Economics and Genetics Meet in Uneasy Union

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 10.10.2012

"The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of...

Civil Society

The Healer

By William Saletan, Slate | 10.09.2012

Shinya Yamanaka, a scientist at Kyoto University, loved stem-cell research. But he didn’t want to destroy embryos. So he figured...

Biopolitics

We are More Than the Sum of our Genes

By Stella Young, Ramp Up | 10.09.2012

As a disabled feminist, I'm often asked about my views on medical procedures like pre-natal screening and preimplantation genetic diagnosis...

Genomics

New Director's Experience a Plus for MSU, but his Controversial Views Concern Some

By Matthew Miller, Lansing State Journal | 10.06.2012

Stephen Hsu was an unconventional choice to lead Michigan State University’s research enterprise.

A theoretical physicist by training, Hsu has...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Japan Team Offers Fertility Hope with Stem Cell Eggs

By Harumi Ozawa, Jakarta Globe | 10.06.2012

Japanese stem cell scientists raised hopes of a cure for infertility in humans Friday when they announced they had created...

Bioethics

Leading Race “Scientist” Dies in Canada

By Don Terry, Southern Poverty Law Center | 10.06.2012

Jean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday...

Biopolitics

Cryonics Photos Delve Into the Frozen World of the Immortality Faithful

By Pete Brook, Wired | 10.04.2012

Life after death, for most people, is a faithful belief in a spiritual hereafter, a transfer to a higher, non-bodily...