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

All in the Genes

By Marcy Darnovsky and Hank Greely, Democracy | 08.31.2008

Henry Greely inaccurately characterizes my organization, the Center for Genetics and Society, as "drawn to arguments against [inheritable human genetic...

Bioethics

DNA’s identity crisis

By Chris Smith, San Francisco | 08.31.2008

In the fall of 2006, a grisly murder case landed on Bicka Barlow’s desk, one that had gone unsolved...

U.S. States

My Body, My Capital?

By Donna Dickenson, The Independent | 08.28.2008

In the 1960s, feminists coined the slogan, "Our bodies, our selves". But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic...

Human Cloning

Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells' Function

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 08.28.2008

Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance...

Stem Cells

Wanted: ‘Perfect’ donors for ‘perfect’ babies

By Mayank Tewari , DNA: Daily News & Analysis | 08.26.2008

Looks do matter, at least to affluent Mumbaikars who flock IVF centres looking for female egg donors. Many infertile couples...

Other Countries

Assisted Reproduction at 30

By Pete Shanks, Cutting Edge News | 08.25.2008

Thirty years ago the assisted reproduction industry was born. From tiny but noisy beginnings, it grew through an occasionally troubled...

Assisted Reproduction

Surrogacy a $445 mn business in India

By The Economic Times, The Economic Times | 08.25.2008

Surrogacy in India is estimated to be a $445 million business with the country being the foremost in the world...

Other Countries

Simply ‘eggs’otic: attractive monetary prospects drive egg donation in India

By Express India, Express India | 08.23.2008

Till a few years ago, egg donation was considered to be a 'life-giver' to many childless couples desiring their own...

Other Countries