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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

Texas Family Turned to Bonita Stem Cell Doctor, but 5-Year-Old Died Before 'Miracle'

By Liz Freeman, Naples News | 03.03.2012
Jimmy and Jennifer Bell were scrambling to save their 5-year-old-son, Jason, last fall.

Shell-shocked with a diagnosis that their youngest...
Stem Cells

Texas Family Turned to Bonita Stem Cell Doctor, but 5-Year-Old Died Before 'Miracle'

By Liz Freeman, Naples News | 03.03.2012
Jimmy and Jennifer Bell were scrambling to save their 5-year-old-son, Jason, last fall.

Shell-shocked with a diagnosis that their youngest...
Stem Cells

Controversial Bioethicist Quits Stem-Cell Company

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 03.01.2012
On 28 February, bioethicist Glenn McGee resigned his position as president of ethics and strategic initiatives at the stem-cell firm...
Bioethics

Pregnant Surrogates ‘Left in the Lurch’ after RCMP Raid Fertility Consultant’s Office

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 03.01.2012
The RCMP have launched an unprecedented investigation of a fertility-treatment consultant, citing alleged violations of laws that ban the buying...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Controversial Bioethicist Quits Stem-Cell Company

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 03.01.2012
On 28 February, bioethicist Glenn McGee resigned his position as president of ethics and strategic initiatives at the stem-cell firm...
Bioethics

Pregnant Surrogates ‘Left in the Lurch’ after RCMP Raid Fertility Consultant’s Office

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 03.01.2012
The RCMP have launched an unprecedented investigation of a fertility-treatment consultant, citing alleged violations of laws that ban the buying...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

NIH Announces Database for Genetic Test Information

By Susan Young, Nature News Blog | 02.29.2012
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled its Genetic Testing Registry, a  database of  information on genetic tests...
U.S. Federal

NIH Announces Database for Genetic Test Information

By Susan Young, Nature News Blog | 02.29.2012
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled its Genetic Testing Registry, a  database of  information on genetic tests...
U.S. Federal