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

Stem Cell Generation from Ordinary Cells Now Safe

By Reuters, Reuters | 10.10.2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese researchers who invented a way to make powerful stem cells out of ordinary cells say they...

Technologies

Cloned animals should not be farmed for food, say consumers

By Sean Poulter, Daily Mail | 10.09.2008
Cloned animals and their offspring should not be farmed for food according to the overwhelming majority of consumers, an EU...
Animal Biotechnologies

IVF boom: British births top 10,000 in a year for the first time

By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail | 10.09.2008
The number of women having successful IVF treatment in the UK has topped 10,000 for the first time.

There were...
Assisted Reproduction

Stem cells from testicles an option to embryos

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | 10.08.2008
Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what...
Stem Cells

OK to Rent Womb in India

By P. Jayaram, The Straits Times | 10.06.2008
NEW DELHI: INDIA'S Supreme Court has not only confirmed what everyone already knew, that surrogacy is a commercial industry in...
Other Countries

Dawn of Low-Price Mapping Could Broaden DNA Uses

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 10.06.2008
The cost of determining a person’s complete genetic blueprint is about to plummet again — to $5,000.

That is the...
Biotech & Pharma

Draft law tightens surrogacy norms [India]

By Malathy Iyer, Times of India | 09.30.2008
Having a test-tube baby may now involve hiring a lawyer along with a doctor. India’s new draft rules on infertility...
Other Countries

New stem cell bill geared toward new administration

By Nicole Gaudiano, Delaware News Journal | 09.29.2008
Following two presidential vetoes, Rep. Mike Castle is looking ahead to the next session of Congress to pass legislation expanding...
Stem Cells