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...

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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

Doctors Offer Fertility, Other Treatments as Contest Prizes

By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel | 11.04.2011

Attention patients: Bring the most Internet viewers to our Facebook page and win a free … pregnancy?

Doctors and medical...

Bioethics

Mengele in America

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 11.02.2011
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes...
Biotech & Pharma

Mengele in America

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 11.02.2011
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes...
Biotech & Pharma

Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 11.02.2011

Oregon Health & Science University's patent on a procedure to clone stem cells caps off a decade of work for...

Patents & Other IP

Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 11.02.2011

Oregon Health & Science University's patent on a procedure to clone stem cells caps off a decade of work for...

Patents & Other IP

Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis

By Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska and David Glovin, Bloomberg Markets Magazineine | 11.01.2011

Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite...

Human Rights

Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis

By Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska and David Glovin, Bloomberg Markets Magazineine | 11.01.2011

Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite...

Human Rights

Kidney Broker Said to Use Johns Hopkins in Organ-Traffic Case

By David Glovin, David Voreacos and Michael Smith, Bloomberg Businessweek | 11.01.2011
An Israeli man who brokered black-market sales of human kidneys in the U.S. arranged transplant surgeries at medical centers, including...
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