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

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

Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene

By Ayesha Ahmad, BioNews | 01.23.2012

Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene...

Patents & Other IP

Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene

By Ayesha Ahmad, BioNews | 01.23.2012

Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene...

Patents & Other IP

Non-Consenting Adults

By Harriet A. Washington, Slate | 01.22.2012

Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a...

Human Rights

Non-Consenting Adults

By Harriet A. Washington, Slate | 01.22.2012

Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a...

Human Rights

Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2012

What are the chances that the prestigious Institute of Medicine will get an objective and balanced view of California’s stem-cell...

Stem Cells