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

Arizona High Court Limits Analysis of Juvenile Defendants' DNA

By Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star | 06.28.2012

Analyzing the DNA samples of juveniles who have not been found guilty of any crime is an unconstitutional warrantless search...

Genomics

Arizona High Court Limits Analysis of Juvenile Defendants' DNA

By Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star | 06.28.2012

Analyzing the DNA samples of juveniles who have not been found guilty of any crime is an unconstitutional warrantless search...

Genomics

Fetal Tests Spur Legal Battle

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 06.27.2012

Genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA from a pregnant woman's blood are arriving in a rush, giving parents powerful tools...

Genomics

Fetal Tests Spur Legal Battle

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 06.27.2012

Genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA from a pregnant woman's blood are arriving in a rush, giving parents powerful tools...

Genomics

FDA Report Faults Houston Stem-Cell Company

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 06.26.2012

The Sugar Land company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's unlicensed adult stem-cell procedure is rife with basic manufacturing problems...

Stem Cells

FDA Report Faults Houston Stem-Cell Company

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 06.26.2012

The Sugar Land company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's unlicensed adult stem-cell procedure is rife with basic manufacturing problems...

Stem Cells

Bodies with Histories

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 06.25.2012

Have you heard this one? A sociologist, a lawyer, and a biologist walk into a bar, scoot their stools up...

Bioethics

Bodies with Histories

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 06.25.2012

Have you heard this one? A sociologist, a lawyer, and a biologist walk into a bar, scoot their stools up...

Bioethics