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

Chinese Couples Come to U.S. to Have Children Through Surrogacy

By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times | 02.18.2012

Americans have long gone to China to adopt babies. In a twist, Chinese couples are now coming here to become...

Other Countries

Company Unveils DNA Sequencing Device Meant to Be Portable, Disposable and Cheap

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 02.18.2012

DNA sequencing is becoming both faster and cheaper. Now, it is also becoming tinier.

A British company said on Friday...

Genomics

Company Unveils DNA Sequencing Device Meant to Be Portable, Disposable and Cheap

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 02.18.2012

DNA sequencing is becoming both faster and cheaper. Now, it is also becoming tinier.

A British company said on Friday...

Genomics

The Celltex Affair

By Carl Elliott, Slate | 02.17.2012

The stem-cell tourism industry is not exactly renowned for ethical probity, much less scientific rigor. Given its reputation for peddling...

Bioethics

The Celltex Affair

By Carl Elliott, Slate | 02.17.2012

The stem-cell tourism industry is not exactly renowned for ethical probity, much less scientific rigor. Given its reputation for peddling...

Bioethics

Chief Judge Backs Broader DNA Testing

By AP, Associated Press | 02.15.2012

ALBANY — New York’s chief judge urged lawmakers Tuesday to require DNA testing for every felony and criminal misdemeanor conviction...

Technologies

Sperm Donor Identity Debate Focuses on Children's Rights

By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun | 02.15.2012

While adoptive children have the right to information about their birth parents and children of sperm donors have no rights...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sperm Donor Identity Debate Focuses on Children's Rights

By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun | 02.15.2012

While adoptive children have the right to information about their birth parents and children of sperm donors have no rights...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights