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

Havasupai Case Highlights Risks in DNA Research

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 04.21.2010

A settlement between 41 members of the Havasupai Indian tribe and Arizona State University highlights the risk researchers take when...

Biotech & Pharma

'Red Flag' raised at fertility agency

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.20.2010

Two respected board members of a controversial federal agency have unexpectedly quit, raising new questions about a three-year-old organization that...

Other Countries

British group weighs paying organ donors

By AP, Associated Press | 04.19.2010

LONDON - An influential British medical think tank is tackling the question of how far society should go to boost...

Public Opinion

China tries to sterilise 10,000 parents over one-child rule

By Jane Macartney, The Times (London) | 04.17.2010

Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise - by force if...

Human Rights

Family become first to have DNA sequenced for non-medical reasons

By Mark Henderson, The Times (London) | 04.16.2010

A family of four has become the first in which every member's genome has been sequenced for non-medical reasons, opening...

Bioethics

Nuclei swap to stop disease?

By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 04.14.2010

A technique may one day prevent something that is currently unpreventable -- the transmission of mitochondrial diseases from mother to...

Genetic Selection

3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues

By Brandon Keim, Wired Science | 04.14.2010

Researchers have produced human embryos containing DNA from three people, a biotechnological proof-of-principle with profound medical and ethical implications.

To...

Bioethics

Kids With Rare Condition Lack Racial Prejudice

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay News / Business Week | 04.13.2010

Children with a rare condition called Williams syndrome appear to lack social fear, and with it, racial prejudice, a new...

Racial Justice