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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

Report Finds US Slow to Implement Synthetic Biology Policies

By Meredith Wadman, Nature News Blog | 02.08.2012

More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington DC. But the Woodrow Wilson...

U.S. Federal

Threatened Fertility: are Fertility Clinic Success Rates Accurate?

By Global News, Global News | 02.08.2012

TORONTO - Many couples struggling with infertility look to fertility-assisted reproductive technologies to conceive a child. When evaluating fertility clinics...

Technologies

Should People Know About the Results of Their Genome Screening?

By Kim Carollo, ABC News | 02.03.2012

If you were at higher risk for developing a condition like Alzheimer's disease or breast cancer, would you want to...

Genomics

Should People Know About the Results of Their Genome Screening?

By Kim Carollo, ABC News | 02.03.2012

If you were at higher risk for developing a condition like Alzheimer's disease or breast cancer, would you want to...

Genomics

Stem Cell Banking: The Newest Lure in Medical Tourism

By Frances Cha, CNN | 02.02.2012

When Min Lee, 54, first toured Seoul's Chaum Life Center -- which is spearheading Korea's stem cell banking industry --...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem Cell Banking: The Newest Lure in Medical Tourism

By Frances Cha, CNN | 02.02.2012

When Min Lee, 54, first toured Seoul's Chaum Life Center -- which is spearheading Korea's stem cell banking industry --...

Biotech & Pharma

Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20

By Tony Dutra, Bloomberg BNA | 02.02.2012

Petitioners challenging the patent eligibility of isolated DNA filed a reply brief Jan. 20, rejecting the respondent patent owner's call...

Biotech & Pharma

Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20

By Tony Dutra, Bloomberg BNA | 02.02.2012

Petitioners challenging the patent eligibility of isolated DNA filed a reply brief Jan. 20, rejecting the respondent patent owner's call...

Biotech & Pharma