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

Informed Consent on Trial

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 01.30.2012

BRUSSELS- Informing clinical-trial participants of the risks they face is a cornerstone of modern medical research, and it is enshrined...

Bioethics

Informed Consent on Trial

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 01.30.2012

BRUSSELS- Informing clinical-trial participants of the risks they face is a cornerstone of modern medical research, and it is enshrined...

Bioethics

Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions In Vitro Practices

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post | 01.29.2012

LUTZ, Fla. — As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is...

Stem Cells

Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions In Vitro Practices

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post | 01.29.2012

LUTZ, Fla. — As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is...

Stem Cells

How a Genetically Engineered Super-Virus Spread – Through the Media

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 01.26.2012

In mid-September last year at the fourth annual European Scientific Working group on Influenza meeting in Malta, Ron Fouchier of...

Technologies

Sterilized by North Carolina, She Felt Raped Once More

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times | 01.25.2012

Reporting from Raleigh, N.C.— Elaine Riddick was a confused and frightened 14-year-old. She was poor and black, the daughter of...

Eugenics

With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks

By Cornelia Dean, New York Times | 01.25.2012

Tiny substances called nanomaterials have moved into the marketplace over the last decade, in products as varied as cosmetics, clothing...

Environmentalism

Fitness 2.0: It's Genes Versus Gym

By Fiona MacDonald, Sydney Morning Herald | 01.25.2012

Not every fitness regime will have the same impact on all types of bodies, but just how personal does a...

Genomics