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

DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.06.2012

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from...

Genetic Selection

UW Researchers Map DNA of Fetus from Mom's Blood

By Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times | 06.06.2012

Researchers at the University of Washington have assembled the first comprehensive genetic map of an unborn child — a development...

Genomics

Ancestry Testing Goes for Pinpoint Accuracy

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 06.06.2012
Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State and national security adviser, ought to be a tough woman to surprise. Yet...
Bioethics

N.C. House Approves Measure Compensating Victims of Eugenics Programs

By Lynn Bonner, News Observer | 06.05.2012
The state House approved in an 86-31 vote Tuesday a measure that will compensate people sterilized by a state authority...
Bioethics

N.C. House Approves Measure Compensating Victims of Eugenics Programs

By Lynn Bonner, News Observer | 06.05.2012
The state House approved in an 86-31 vote Tuesday a measure that will compensate people sterilized by a state authority...
Bioethics

European Crisis Bolsters Illegal Sales of Body Parts

By Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times | 06.01.2012
BELGRADE — Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation...
Human Rights

European Crisis Bolsters Illegal Sales of Body Parts

By Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times | 06.01.2012
BELGRADE — Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation...
Human Rights

Patenting and Personal Genomics: 23andMe Receives its First Patent, and Plenty of Questions

By Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 06.01.2012

Earlier this week 23andMe, the Silicon Valley-based personal genomics company, was awarded its first patent: US Patent Number 8,187,811, entitled...

Genomics