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

Pitt researcher again pursues cloning patent

By Walter F. Roche Jr., Pittshburgh Tribune-Review | 04.04.2009
A University of Pittsburgh stem cell researcher has renewed his efforts to win a patent on a process to clone...
Human Cloning

A New Look at Race and Natural Selection

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 04.02.2009
In a worldwide survey of 50 populations, a team of geneticists has identified many fingerprints of natural selection in the...
Racial Justice

Bill to Ban Human Cloning Signed by Governor (Montana)

By KFBB, KFBB | 04.01.2009

The bill to ban human cloning in the state of Montana has officially been signed by Governor Schweitzer.

The controversial...

Human Cloning

Retracted paper rattles Korean science

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 04.01.2009
Nature this week is retracting a 2000 paper that promised an advance in diabetes treatment using gene therapy. Confusion surrounding...
Human Genetic Modification

As Egg Donations Mount, So Do Health Concerns

By Catherine Elton, Time | 03.31.2009
At the time, donating her eggs to an infertile couple seemed like the perfect solution for Marilyn Drake's money troubles...
Assisted Reproduction

California stem cell program needs a new treatment

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 03.30.2009
In the annals of wrongheaded things done with the best intentions, the California stem cell program has always been in...
U.S. States

Study: Two IVF Embryos May Offer No Better Odds Than One

By Tiffany Sharples, Time | 03.30.2009
As the case of the so-called Octomom continues to spur outrage and debate over the use of in vitro fertilization...
Assisted Reproduction

To Sketch a Thief: Genes Draw Likeness of Suspects

By Gautam Naik, Wall Street Journal | 03.30.2009
The old-fashioned police sketch is getting a makeover.

Researchers are identifying genes that give rise to a person's physical traits...
Genomics