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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...

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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...

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New stem cell regulations: By whose authority?

By Bryn Nelson, Nature Reports Stem Cells | 03.19.2009

Officials at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be kept busy for the next four months as they...

Stem Cells

Obama's stem cell policy is welcome change, but ethics are permanent feature of debate

By Jesse Reynolds, The Jurist online | 03.18.2009

President Obama's recent removal of his predecessor's stem cell policy is a welcome development. The Bush administration's restriction on the...

Stem Cells

Editorial: The right and wrong ways to prevent future ‘octomoms’

By USA Today, USA Today | 03.18.2009

The birth of octuplets in California seven weeks ago to a 33-year-old single mother through in vitro fertilization generated widespread...

Assisted Reproduction

Genetic Surveillance for All

By Jeffrey Rosen, Slate | 03.17.2009

The Case of the Bloody Brick
In March 2003, a drunk in southern England threw a brick off a bridge...

U.S. States

Genes Without Borders

By Mark Stencel, Congressional Quarterly | 03.15.2009

Putting limits on some kinds of genetic research has always been a bit like trying to regulate spam. Somehow those...

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Fertility overload

By Marcy Darnovsky, Riverside Press-Enterprise | 03.14.2009

The recent birth of in vitro fertilized octuplets to Nadya Suleman, a Whittier woman, sent jaws dropping all over the...

Assisted Reproduction

Preventing the Next Fertility Clinic Scandal

By Jesse Reynolds, Bioethics Forum | 03.13.2009

Given the U.S. fertility industry's longstanding resistance to effective oversight, the field's two recent controversies - first octuplets, then an...

Genetic Selection

Stem Cell Decision Worries Some Scientists

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 03.11.2009

While praised by scientists, President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research could cause...

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