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

Fame-courting biotech running short of cash

By Todd Wallack, Boston Globe | 07.17.2008

For the past decade, Advanced Cell Technology Inc. has claimed one spectacular success after another.

The Worcester biotech firm said...

Stem Cells

Stem cell Roundup

By Jesse Reynolds, Genetic Crossroads | 07.16.2008

Letter of support for SB 1565
The Center for Genetics and Society sent this letter to the California Assembly Appropriations...

The Ethics of Characterizing Difference: Guiding Principles on Using Racial Categories in Human Genetics

By Sandra Soo-Jin Lee et. al. , Genome Biology | 07.15.2008

Abstract

We are a multidisciplinary group of Stanford faculty who propose ten principles to guide the use of racial and...

Racial Justice

Is social egg-freezing the right thing for you?

By Rebecca Ley, The Sun | 07.15.2008

WITH her neat clothes and immaculate make-up, Lucy Sutton looks like a career woman in control of every detail in...

Assisted Reproduction

Gov't to review implementation of PCPNDT (Sex Selection) Act

By Times of India, Times of India | 07.14.2008

Taking a serious note of the poor implementation of pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostics techniques (prohibition of sex selection) (PCPNDT) Act...

Genetic Selection

[United Kingdom] Brown delays embryo bill

By Ross Lydall, The Scotsman | 07.11.2008

GORDON Brown, the Prime Minister, yesterday made a play for Catholic voters in the Glasgow East by-election by postponing a...

Skewed birth ratios raise fears of social crisis in Vietnam

By AsiaNews/Agencies, AsiaNews/Agencies | 07.10.2008

Vietnam could experience a major social crisis as a result of a skewed birth rate. Traditionally and for historical reasons...

Other Countries

New Technique Harvests Stem Cells at Earlier Stage

By HealthDay News, HealthDay News | 07.09.2008

WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they have finally succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells earlier in...

Technologies