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

IVF Study Shows One Embryo is Best

By Rebecca Brice, ABC News | 07.05.2012

Australian researchers have discovered that the rate of perinatal deaths in IVF (in vitro fertilisation) can be considerably reduced when...

Global Governance

IVF Study Shows One Embryo is Best

By Rebecca Brice, ABC News | 07.05.2012

Australian researchers have discovered that the rate of perinatal deaths in IVF (in vitro fertilisation) can be considerably reduced when...

Global Governance

Woman Sues FDA Over Right to Select Her Own Sperm Donor

By Meghan Neal, New York Daily News | 07.04.2012

A California woman is suing the federal government, arguing she should have the right to be artificially inseminated by a...

Genomics

Woman Sues FDA Over Right to Select Her Own Sperm Donor

By Meghan Neal, New York Daily News | 07.04.2012

A California woman is suing the federal government, arguing she should have the right to be artificially inseminated by a...

Genomics

Should People be Allowed To Sell Their Organs?

By Alice Park, Time / CNN | 07.03.2012

How much would it take for you to consider selling your bone marrow? A U.S. appeals court puts the price...

Stem Cells

Should People be Allowed To Sell Their Organs?

By Alice Park, Time / CNN | 07.03.2012

How much would it take for you to consider selling your bone marrow? A U.S. appeals court puts the price...

Stem Cells

How to Tell When A Drug Company Fibs About Clinical Trial Results

By Adam Feuerstein, The Street | 07.03.2012

Osiris Therapeutics "disappeared" important data when the company announced results Monday from a mid-stage study of its stem cell therapy...

Genomics

How to Tell When A Drug Company Fibs About Clinical Trial Results

By Adam Feuerstein, The Street | 07.03.2012

Osiris Therapeutics "disappeared" important data when the company announced results Monday from a mid-stage study of its stem cell therapy...

Genomics