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

Medicine agency stays immune to budget cuts

By Katie Worth, San Francisco Examiner | 07.11.2010
Public libraries, special education programs, law enforcement agencies, parks, services for the elderly — all have been wounded by the...
Stem Cells

California Legislators' Effort to Prevent Student DNA Testing Could Come Too Late

By Ferris Jabr, Scientific American | 07.09.2010
State legislators have lined up a bill aimed at preventing the University of California, Berkeley, from executing a controversial program...
Genomics

‘Grim Sleeper’ Arrest Fans Debate on DNA Use

By Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times | 07.08.2010
LOS ANGELES — The arrest in the case of the “Grim Sleeper” — a serial killer who terrorized South Los...
Genomics

European Parliament Seeks Ban on Foods From Cloned Animals

By James Kanter, New York Times | 07.07.2010
The European Parliament appealed on Wednesday for a ban on the sale of foods from cloned animals and their offspring...
Animal Biotechnologies

Exposing the Student Body

By Ferris Jabr, Scientific American | 07.06.2010
This week, the University of California, Berkeley will mail saliva sample kits to every incoming freshman and transfer student. Students...
Genomics

Universities Bank on Stem-Cell Research

By Robert A. Guth, Wall Street Journal | 07.01.2010
Bay Area universities and research groups are betting they can spawn a new generation of medical breakthroughs and the next...
Fact Sheets

Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the dead

By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 06.30.2010
TAKE frozen cells from a dead animal, reprogram them to become sperm and eggs, then use these to bring endangered...
Animal Biotechnologies

Women freeze eggs to wait for 'Mr Right'

By Emma Wilkinson, BBC News | 06.28.2010

A study of women at a Belgian clinic found half wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off...

Assisted Reproduction