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

Asian Women Command Premium Prices for Egg Donation in U.S.

By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times | 05.03.2012

It's technically called an egg "donation." But if you're a young Asian woman, donating your eggs to an infertile couple...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Ethicist: We Need Safer Drugs for Our Kids

By Harriet A. Washington, CNN | 05.03.2012

Editor's note: Harriet A. Washington is a medical ethicist, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the...

Bioethics

Asian Women Command Premium Prices for Egg Donation in U.S.

By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times | 05.03.2012

It's technically called an egg "donation." But if you're a young Asian woman, donating your eggs to an infertile couple...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Should Addicts be Sterilized?

By Jed Bickman, Salon | 05.02.2012

“Don’t let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit,” the slogan on the fliers reads. Another says, “She has her daddy’s...

Eugenics

Should Addicts be Sterilized?

By Jed Bickman, Salon | 05.02.2012

“Don’t let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit,” the slogan on the fliers reads. Another says, “She has her daddy’s...

Eugenics

Artificial DNA Presents Real Dangers

By Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical Times | 05.02.2012

As concerns grow about dangers posed by the emergent field of synthetic biology, a novel discovery threatens to make...

Are Canadian Fertility Services Breaking the Law?

By Françoise Baylis, Bioethics Forum | 05.01.2012

In Canada, payment for eggs, sperm, in vitro embryos, and surrogacy is prohibited under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act of...

Bioethics

South Korea Steps Up Stem-Cell Work

By Soo Bin Park, Nature News | 05.01.2012

The South Korean health ministry announced last month that research into stem cells and regenerative medicine will receive a funding...

Stem Cells