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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

In Fighting Crime, How Wide Should a Genetic Net Reach?

By Natasha Singer, The New York Times | 07.24.2010

It's the latest criminal investigation technique, and it gives new meaning to that old saw "the ties that bind."

Recently...

Genomics

Navigenics, 23andMe slammed in government report

By Steve Johnson, Mercury News | 07.22.2010

In an undercover federal sting made public Thursday, two Bay Area genetic testing companies were found to offer information that...

Biotech & Pharma

Hundreds of IVF embryos donated 'without consent'

By Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph | 07.22.2010

Hundreds of British couples could have children that are biologically theirs living with other parents around Europe or across the...

Assisted Reproduction

FDA Weighs Rules for Genetic Consumer Tests

By Jennifer Corbett Dooran, Wall Street Journal | 07.19.2010

A high bar is likely to be set for companies seeking to sell genetic tests directly to consumers, according to...

Genomics

Genetic testing mix-up reignites debate over degree of federal regulation needed

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 07.17.2010

One woman panicked when the genetic test she had ordered over the Internet concluded that her son was carrying a...

Genomics

FDA: Gene Tests Need Premarket Approval

By Bridget M. Kuehn, Journal of the American Medical Association | 07.14.2010

Companies that manufacture or market direct-to-consumer tests must submit their products for premarketing review and approval by the Food and...

Genomics

"Octomom" doctor accused of implanting 7 embryos

By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press | 07.14.2010

The fertility doctor of "Octomom" Nadya Suleman implanted too many embryos in one patient, resulting in the death of a...

Assisted Reproduction

ACLU says California DNA law violates privacy

By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.14.2010

Challenging a California law that requires police to collect the DNA of all suspected felons, an American Civil Liberties Union...

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