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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

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

Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 01.20.2012

The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for...

U.S. States

Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 01.20.2012

The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for...

U.S. States

Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 01.19.2012

That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men...

Genetic Selection

Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 01.19.2012

That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men...

Genetic Selection

S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug

By Associated Foreign Press, Mysinchew.com | 01.19.2012

South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved...

Biotech & Pharma

S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug

By Associated Foreign Press, Mysinchew.com | 01.19.2012

South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved...

Biotech & Pharma

'Three-Person IVF' Technique Moves Closer

By BBC, BBC News | 01.19.2012

It replaces defective genetic material in the egg in order to eliminate rare mitochondrial diseases.

After the consultation into "three-person...

Assisted Reproduction