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

Without Consent: How Drug Companies Exploit Indian 'Guinea Pigs'

By Andrew Buncombe and Nina Lakhani, The Independent UK | 11.14.2011

Western pharmaceutical companies have seized on India over the past five years as a testing ground for drugs – making...

Biotech & Pharma

First Test of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy in People Discontinued

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 11.14.2011

The company conducting the first government-approved tests in people of a therapy developed using human embryonic stem cells abruptly announced...

Stem Cells

First Test of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy in People Discontinued

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 11.14.2011

The company conducting the first government-approved tests in people of a therapy developed using human embryonic stem cells abruptly announced...

Stem Cells

Eggs From Young Asian Women In High Demand

By CBS SF, CBS San Francisco | 11.14.2011

It’s the hot new item in the fertility industry. More and more infertile Asian couples want eggs, but few young...

Assisted Reproduction

UK Supreme Court Upholds Gene Patent

By Martin Turner, BioNews | 11.14.2011

In what appears to be the end of a long running legal saga, a ruling by the UK's Supreme Court...

Patents & Other IP

St. Louis Officers to File Suit over Department's DNA Collection

By Christine Byers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 11.14.2011

The St. Louis Police Officers' Association filed a grievance today saying the department's collection of DNA from police officers is...

Genomics