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

Who's Your Daddy? DNA Clinic Gives Answers, Sparks Concerns

By Lily Kuo, Reuters | 08.22.2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mobile DNA testing facility that looks more like a motor home than a medical clinic...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Vt. High Court to Weigh Pre-Conviction DNA Testing

By Dave Gram, The Boston Globe | 08.20.2012
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court has been asked to rule on the constitutionality of a 2009 law allowing the...
U.S. States

Madison Heights Woman Recalls Forced Sterilization at Training Center

By Ray Reed, The News and Advance | 08.18.2012
Like many other residents of the institution once known as the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, Sarah Pack Wiley apparently...
Eugenics

Q & A on Myriad Decision: DNA Patent Upheld, Process Patent Not

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 08.17.2012
Can a company patent a gene? According to a new appeals court ruling, yes — even when that gene is...
Genomics

Books and JavaScript Stored in DNA Molecules

By Douglas Heaven, New Scientist | 08.16.2012
Forget flash – the computers of the future might store data in DNA. George Church of the Wyss Institute at...
Synthetic Biology

Genetically Engineering 'Ethical' Babies is a Moral Obligation, Says Oxford Professor

By Richard Alleyne, The Telegraph [UK] | 08.16.2012
Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a "moral obligation" as it makes them grow...
Bioethics

Appeals Court Rules for Myriad on Gene Patents

By Brent Kendall, The Wall Street Journal | 08.16.2012
WASHINGTON—A divided federal appeals court on Thursday reaffirmed its ruling last year that isolated human genes can be patented, a...
U.S. Federal

As It Enters the Sporting Spotlight, Brazil Calls on the World to Rethink Race

By Siân Herbert, Guardian UK | 08.14.2012
Brazil is now officially on track for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. In a bid to open the...
Technologies