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

Sperm Precursor Cells Created in Lab

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.07.2012

The moment when scientists will be able to create artificial sperm from a skin cell is drawing closer. Scientists at...

Other Countries

Where Is the Path Forward for Forensics? Part II

By Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post | 09.07.2012
Donald Eugene Gates, convicted of murder in Washington D.C., would spend 28 years in prison before he was exonerated in...
Civil Society

Weird Science: The Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biology

By Jeff Conant, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2012 | 09.06.2012
In 1971, a microbiologist named Ananda Chakrabarty patented a bacteria genetically engineered to degrade and destroy crude oil. The next...
Bioethics

Bits of Mystery DNA, Far From ‘Junk,’ Play Crucial Role

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.05.2012
Among the many mysteries of human biology is why complex diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and psychiatric disorders are...
Genomics

Forensics on the Hill: Part I

By Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post | 09.05.2012
Two stray hairs sealed Donald Eugene Gates' fate. He was a suspect in the rape and murder of a college...
Bioethics

US Court Upholds Federal Funding of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Victoria Kay, BioNews | 09.03.2012
The US Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling permitting the use of federal funds for research involving human embryonic...
Stem Cells

South Carolina to Collect DNA After Every Felony Arrest

By Seanna Adcox, Associated Press | 09.01.2012
COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s law enforcement agency will soon collect DNA samples from people when they’re arrested for a felony...
Bioethics

Health Ministry to Expand Pregnant Women's Genetic Testing Subsidies

By Yaron Kelner, YNet News | 08.31.2012
The Health Ministry has decided to subsidize a variety of genetic tests for pregnant women in Israel. The new...
Genetic Selection