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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

Larry King: I Want To Be Frozen

By Katie McLaughlin, CNN | 12.02.2011

"I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back," Larry...

A "Post-Human" Future?

A Conversation with Writer and Troublemaker Carl Elliott, Parts I & II

By Misha Angrist, PLOS Medicine/GenomeBoy | 12.02.2011

In 2009 I attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The keynote speaker was...

Bioethics

A Conversation with Writer and Troublemaker Carl Elliott, Parts I & II

By Misha Angrist, PLOS Medicine/GenomeBoy | 12.02.2011

In 2009 I attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The keynote speaker was...

Bioethics

Do Egg Donors Lie?

By Jenna Marotta, Jezebel | 12.01.2011

On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Do Egg Donors Lie?

By Jenna Marotta, Jezebel | 12.01.2011

On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Court Says Some Donors of Stem Cells Can Be Paid

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.01.2011

An appeals court says a law prohibiting payment for donated organs did not apply to stem cells extracted from circulating...

Biotech & Pharma

Court Says Some Donors of Stem Cells Can Be Paid

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.01.2011

An appeals court says a law prohibiting payment for donated organs did not apply to stem cells extracted from circulating...

Biotech & Pharma

Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs

By Marcy Darnovsky, Susan Berke Fogel, Judy Norsigian, Nature | 12.01.2011

The demand for women’s eggs for research could soar alarmingly following news of a cloning technique that uses human oocytes...

Stem Cells