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

Will Gattaca Come True?

By Mara Hvistendahl, Slate | 04.27.2012
In 2003, back when such things remained unpredictable, a woman gave birth to a baby boy with Down syndrome. Her...
Genomics

White House Promotes a Bioeconomy

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 04.26.2012

The National Bioeconomy Blueprint, as the plan is called, discusses a variety of measures and strategies to spur research and...

Biopolitics

$10.3 Million for Eugenics Compensation

By Herbert L. White, Charlotte Post | 04.25.2012
Perdue, a Democrat who is not seeking re-election, said the money would be used for $50,000 payments to verified victims...
Disability Rights

Maryland Law Enforcement Agencies Still Collecting DNA Samples

By Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun | 04.25.2012

Police around Maryland said Wednesday that they would continue to collect DNA samples when suspects are arrested for violent crimes...

Human Rights

Md. High Court Strikes Down DNA Collection at Arrest

By Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun | 04.24.2012

Maryland's highest court on Tuesday blocked police in most cases from collecting DNA samples when they arrest suspects in violent...

Genomics

FDA Proposes Rules for Nanotechnology in Food

By Mathew Perrone, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.21.2012
(04-21) 07:40 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in...
U.S. Federal

Woman Who Ran Surrogacy Company Arrested on Fraud Charges

By Rosalio Ahumada, Bellingham Herald | 04.20.2012

MODESTO, CALIF. - Federal authorities Friday arrested a woman on suspicion of defrauding more than $2 million from prospective parents...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Synthetic Genetic Evolution

By Ruth Williams, The Scientist | 04.19.2012
Synthetic genetic polymers, broadly referred to as XNAs, can replicate and evolve just like their naturally occurring counterparts, DNA and...
Synthetic Biology