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

Reprogrammed Stem Cells Are Rife with Mutations

By Emily Singer, Technology Review | 03.03.2011

Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells harbor a number of genetic mutations, some of which appear in...

Stem Cells

U.S. Bioethics Panel to Review Clinical Trials Around the World

By Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider | 03.01.2011

Prompted by concerns about an unethical U.S.-sponsored study in the 1940s, bioethics advisers to President Barack Obama formed an international...

Human Rights

Gene Therapy Against HIV Not a Proven Cure, Experts Say

By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay News | 03.01.2011

TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Experts are reacting with cautious optimism to the announcement Monday that researchers reconfigured immune...

Human Genetic Modification

Past medical testing on humans revealed

By Mike Stobbe, The Washington Post | 02.27.2011
Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison...
Media Coverage

Donor-Conceived and Out of the Closet

By Alessandra Rafferty, Newsweek | 02.25.2011
Toronto journalist Olivia Pratten is awaiting a landmark decision from a Canadian court on the disclosure of sperm donors’ records...
Civil Society

Courts 'will reject test secrecy'

By Paul Rincon, BBC News | 02.24.2011
Peter Gill told the BBC that UK courts would not accept forensic tests whose details are kept secret due to...
Genomics

Is DNA taken from arrestees constitutional?

By Nathan Gorenstein, Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.24.2011
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia will decide whether it is constitutional for the government to take DNA samples from...
Civil Society

Thai police free women from surrogate baby ring

By AFP, AFP | 02.24.2011

Fourteen Vietnamese women, seven of them pregnant, have been rescued from an "illegal and inhuman" surrogate baby breeding ring in...

Assisted Reproduction