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

Fertility law leaves us in limbo, doctors say [Canada]

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.30.2010

Fertility doctors say they are becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of guidance from Canada's $10-million-a-year assisted-reproduction agency, with one...

Other Countries

Healthy genome used to predict disease risk in later life

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 04.29.2010

For the first time, doctors have used the genetic profile of an apparently healthy middle-aged man to predict his risk...

Genomics

Connecticut woman alleges genetic discrimination at work

By AP, Associated Press | 04.28.2010

A Connecticut woman who had a voluntary double mastectomy after genetic testing is alleging her employer eliminated her job after...

U.S. Federal

Watchdog under fire as number of IVF blunders soars

By Jo Macfarlane, The Daily Mail | 04.24.2010

The number of blunders made at IVF clinics has nearly doubled in the past 12 months.

The serious mistakes, which...

Assisted Reproduction

'Informed Consent' and the Ethics of DNA Research

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 04.23.2010

The cultural gap between the impoverished Havasupai Indians who view their blood as sacred and the Arizona State University researchers...

Human Rights

Mixed Messages on Gene Patenting

By Anna Salleh, ABC (Australia) | 04.23.2010

A landmark US court ruling against gene patents has reignited debate on the issue in Australia just weeks before the...

Other Countries

Gene Therapy Takes a Turn for the Better

By Rob Waters, Bloomberg Businessweek | 04.22.2010

Jean Erickson, a former preschool director, suffers from Parkinson's disease. Her mobility was improved when doctors drilled a hole into...

Human Genetic Modification

The perils of cheap fertility drugs

By Professor Bill Ledger, BBC News | 04.21.2010

VIEWPOINT

Professor Bill Ledger, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Sheffield University

During the 90s multiple births rose as doctors implanted...

Assisted Reproduction