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

Google, Microsoft pull sex ads after India legal threat

By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 09.18.2008

Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and other services considered illegal in India after...

Genetic Selection

Surrogacy is soaring in India

By Alifiya Khan, Hindustan Times | 09.18.2008

After five years of marriage, Arjun and Aarti Sahu (names changed) were about to give up trying to get a...

Other Countries

FDA to review genetically engineered farm animals

By AP, Associated Press | 09.18.2008

Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. The government said it will start considering proposals to...

Animal Biotechnologies

Australia Grants License To Create Cloned Human Embryos

By Red Ordbit and Wire Reports, Red Ordbit and Wire Reports | 09.17.2008

The Australian government's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) said Wednesday it has granted its first license allowing scientists...

Stem Cells

Inequality and Human Genetics

By Richard Hayes, The New York Times | 09.16.2008

David Frum correctly acknowledges that income inequality in the United States has been growing steadily and that the use of...

Biopolitics

Accessible science

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 09.15.2008

In a third-floor loft where programmers build Internet start-ups, Mackenzie Cowell is talking about the tools he and like-minded young...

Biotech & Pharma

When in Doubt, Spit It Out

By Allen Salkin, New York Times | 09.12.2008

It was a funny thing to be doing in a cocktail dress.

Debra Netschert, a financial analyst, was sitting next...

Genomics

Google India runs ad for illegal baby sex test kit

By Erika Kinetz, Associated Press | 09.11.2008

The advertisement seems innocuous enough: A pregnant woman's belly with a male symbol scrawled in ink to the right of...

Genetic Selection