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

First Gay Couple to Become Fathers in UK Spend £65K to Ensure Next Child is a Girl

By Sadie Whitelocks, The Daily Mail (UK) | 06.12.2012

Britain’s first gay fathers have have spent £65,000 traveling to the U.S. so they can undergo IVF treatment which will...

Bioethics

Genome Test Slammed for Assessing ‘Racial Purity’

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 06.12.2012

Officials in Hungary united this week to condemn ongoing ethnic violence and anti-Semitic attacks, including an assault on the former...

Other Countries

Genetic Testing For Color Vision Makes Commercial Debut for Military Applications

By Dan Buckland, medGadget | 06.12.2012

Possibly heralding a new era in the use of genetic testing for hiring decisions, Genevolve (Albuquerque, NM) announced at the...

Genomics

Nuffield Council Gives Green Light to the Prevention of Inherited Mitochondrial Disease

By Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews | 06.12.2012

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published an ethical review of new techniques which aim to prevent the transmission of...

Genomics

First Gay Couple to Become Fathers in UK Spend £65K to Ensure Next Child is a Girl

By Sadie Whitelocks, The Daily Mail (UK) | 06.12.2012

Britain’s first gay fathers have have spent £65,000 traveling to the U.S. so they can undergo IVF treatment which will...

Bioethics

Let's Get Real on Synthetic Biology

By Claire Marris and Nikolas Rose, NewScientist.com | 06.11.2012

As the race to build life from scratch pushes on, hyperbole drowns out nuanced discussion. We need more wide-ranging dialogue...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Let's Get Real on Synthetic Biology

By Claire Marris and Nikolas Rose, NewScientist.com | 06.11.2012

As the race to build life from scratch pushes on, hyperbole drowns out nuanced discussion. We need more wide-ranging dialogue...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Genetic Screening of Unborn Babies 'May be Inaccurate'

By Nick Collins, The Telegraph (UK) | 06.07.2012

American experts have developed a blood test which they claim could be used to routinely screen foetuses for more than...

Human Genetic Modification