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

Health Insurance and ‘Genetic Discrimination’: Are Rules Needed?

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 01.01.2012
Brynne Stainsby grew up knowing she had a good chance of being diagnosed with Huntington’s disease one day.

Her father...
Genomics

Sydney Women Turn to US Dads for Sperm Donation

By Rosie Squires, The Sunday Telegraph | 01.01.2012
Local donations to IVF clinics have all but stopped since it became easier for children to track down their biological...
Assisted Reproduction

Health Insurance and ‘Genetic Discrimination’: Are Rules Needed?

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 01.01.2012
Brynne Stainsby grew up knowing she had a good chance of being diagnosed with Huntington’s disease one day.

Her father...
Genomics

The Daughter’s Return

By The Economist, The Economist | 12.31.2011

A glimmer of hope in the sad tale of sex-selective abortion in India

THE march of sex-selective abortion in Asia...

Other Countries

American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News Blog | 12.29.2011
An American university scientist was arrested on 27 December, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies.

The...
Stem Cells

American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News Blog | 12.29.2011
An American university scientist was arrested on 27 December, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies.

The...
Stem Cells

Cloning vs. Conservation

By John Rennie, Smart Planet | 12.20.2011
Suppose you knew the rain forests would be totally destroyed in 20 years, no matter what. But you also knew...
Environmentalism

Cloning vs. Conservation

By John Rennie, Smart Planet | 12.20.2011
Suppose you knew the rain forests would be totally destroyed in 20 years, no matter what. But you also knew...
Environmentalism