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

Delay revealing gender of fetus to curb sex selection: Experts

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.12.2010

Two Canadian medical experts are calling for new guidelines that would bar doctors from telling parents the sex of their...

Genetic Selection

How Gene Patents Harm Innovation

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 04.09.2010

A New York judge's opinion to toss out the patents on two breast cancer genes paves the way for high-tech...

Biotech & Pharma

The dangers of growing DNA databases

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Los Angeles Times | 04.09.2010

President Obama may have given credence to a relatively new but questionable law enforcement practice that the rest of the...

Human Rights

Tories give up plan to block police retention of DNA samples - for now

By Francis Elliott and Richard Ford , The Times | 04.08.2010

The Tories have abandoned attempts to block the retention of DNA samples, to pre-empt a Labour campaign led by the...

Genomics

Horse cloning sparks debate in America's breeding stables

By The Telegraph, The Telegraph | 04.08.2010

Zarela Olsen decided to clone her horse Capuchino, who was named Paso Fino "Horse of the Millennium" in 1999, before...

Technologies

When Scientists Pick a Fight with the Law

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Science Progress | 04.07.2010

Since the times of Galileo and as recently as climate change researchers’ battles with the Bush administration, scientists have defended...

Genomics

Genes belong to humanity

By Editorial, Charlottesville Daily Progress [Quotes CGS's Jesse Reynolds] | 04.06.2010

Should researchers be allowed to patent your genes?

No, said a U.S. district court in a ruling that opponents contend...

U.S. Federal

Buying time on the biological clock

By Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune | 04.06.2010

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt was 37 when she froze her eggs, a process technically known as oocyte cryopreservation. She knew it wouldn't...

Assisted Reproduction