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

US clinic offers British couples the chance to choose the sex of their child

By Alice Fishburn, The Times (UK) | 08.22.2009
A new clinic in Manhattan is appealing to British couples who want to pick the sex of their next child...
Genetic Selection

Why Racial Profiling Persists in Medical Research

By Catherine Elton, Time | 08.22.2009

While the rest of the country wrangled over the behavior of police officers in the wake of the Henry Louis...

Racial Justice

What Kind of Bioethics Council Do We Need? / The Battle to Patent Your Genes

By Flagged, Genetic Crossroads | 08.20.2009

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Gene Pioneer Venter Takes Another Step Toward Synthetic Life

By Rob Waters, Bloomberg | 08.20.2009
A team led by J. Craig Venter, the scientist who headed a private effort to map the human genome in...
Biotech & Pharma

Geron: FDA delays 1st trial of stem cell treatment

By AP, Associated Press | 08.17.2009

Regulators are delaying a trial of an embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury, drug developer Geron Corp. said...

Stem Cells

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 08.17.2009
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been...
Human Rights

What Kind of Bioethics Council Do We Need?

By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 08.17.2009

Bioethics councils have come in many shapes and sizes, with different mandates, memberships, and outcomes. What kind of bioethics council...

Bioethics

Dog Cloning Center to Open Next Year

By Kim Tong-hyung, Korea Times | 08.13.2009
RNL Bio, a Seoul-based biotech firm, plans to open a research center for canine cloning early next year.

By 2013...
Animal Biotechnologies