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

Wider Debate Swirls Over Ruling That Curtailed Berkeley's DNA Program

By Josh Keller, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 08.19.2010

After months of debate, a ruling by the California Department of Public Health last week put an end to the...

Biotech & Pharma

Reanimated ‘Junk’ DNA Is Found to Cause Disease

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 08.19.2010

The human genome is riddled with dead genes, fossils of a sort, dating back hundreds of thousands of years -...

Biotech & Pharma

How DNA evidence creates victims of chance

By Linda Geddes, The New Scientist | 08.18.2010

CHARLES RICHARD SMITH has learned the hard way that you can prove almost anything with statistics. In 2009 a disputed...

Genomics

Medicine, not food, may have more to gain from cloning

By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | 08.14.2010

The cloning of animals may have come from agriculture, but its real promise may be in the lucrative field of...

Human Cloning

UC Berkeley waters down DNA testing

By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.13.2010

Under pressure from state public health officials, the professors behind UC Berkeley's controversial plan to genetically test incoming freshmen and...

Genomics

UCal Berkeley Pulls Back Freshman Gene Tests

By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb [Quotes CGS's Richard Hayes and Jesse Reynolds] | 08.13.2010

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The University of California at Berkeley will significantly modify its plan to run genetic tests...

Genomics

In India, age often doesn't stop women from seeking help to become pregnant

By Emily Wax, Washington Post | 08.13.2010

Inside a crowded rural hospital, gray-haired Nananki Rohtash rested on a cot, her swollen legs elevated while her sister-in-law paced...

Assisted Reproduction

Campus DNA Testing Program Will Not Release Individual Results

By Emma Anderson, The Daily Cal | 08.12.2010

UC Berkeley's controversial plan to test incoming freshman's DNA will no longer give provide individual students with their results, but...

Genomics