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

IVF 30 Years On

By Olga Craig, Telegraph [UK] | 06.16.2008

When the first test-tube baby was born, it wasn't just the beginning of a new life but of a whole...

Assisted Reproduction

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Alternet | 06.16.2008

Good Morning America recently televised a world exclusive that caught many pet owners' attention: Dog cloning is now commercially available...

Media Coverage

Loophole in Embryology Bill could allow cloning without new legislation

By Mark Henderson, The Times | 06.14.2008

A loophole in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill could permit some reproductive cloning without the need for fresh primary...

Human Cloning

Gene Fears by Doping Body

By Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh Evening News | 06.12.2008

THE World Anti-Doping Agency has called for increased awareness of the dangers of gene doping.
Defined by WADA as "the...

Global Governance

Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

By Brendan Maher, Nature | 06.11.2008

US stem-cell researchers are calling for changes to state laws that prohibit compensating women who donate eggs for research. The...

Stem Cells

Fight to Clone a Human

By Suellen Hinde and Fiona Hudson, The Herald Sun | 06.08.2008

A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two groups.

Teams...

Stem Cells

As GINA is Signed Into Law, Most Predict Great Gains, But Some See Shortcomings, Others Find a Mixed Bag

By John T. Aquino, The Bureau of National Affairs | 06.05.2008

President Bush May 21 signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which prohibits employers, health plans, and insurers from...

U.S. Federal

Stem cell researchers face down stem cell tourism

By Bryn Nelson, Nature Reports Stem Cells | 06.05.2008

In April, a paralysed man returning to Colorado from experimental stem cell therapy in India said he could feel the...

Stem Cells