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

Couples Could Win Right to Select Deaf Baby

By Richard Gray, Telegraph | 04.14.2008

Deaf couples could be allowed to use embryo-screening technology and choose to have a deaf child, after a climb-down by...

Disability Rights

On the Retail Frontier, Another Shop in SoHo for the Person Who Has Everything

By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times | 04.13.2008

Michael Hall said he was in SoHo on Saturday to do what people do in SoHo: meet friends, have a...

Biotech & Pharma

The Globalization of Baby-Making

By Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe | 04.11.2008

BY NOW we all have a story about a job outsourced beyond our reach in the global economy. My favorite...

Assisted Reproduction

The Curious Lives of Surrogates

By Lorraine Ali and and Raina Kelley, Newsweek | 04.07.2008

Jennifer Cantor, a 34-year-old surgical nurse from Huntsville, Ala., loves being pregnant. Not having children, necessarily-she has one, an 8-year-old...

Assisted Reproduction

Stem Cell Research May Not Find Wonder Cures

By Lindsay Moss, The Scotsman | 04.07.2008

STEM cell research, we have long been told, should pave the way for revolutionary new treatments to help millions of...

Stem Cells

United Kingdom: Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos

By The Times/Populus, The Times/Populus | 04.04.2008

Medical researchers want to create embryos that are mostly human, but which contain a little animal material, because they think...

Society

Eight Years after Jesse’s Death, Are Human Research Subjects Any Safer?

By Paul Gelsinger and Adil E. Shamoo, Hastings Center Report | 04.04.2008

It has been more than eight years since Jesse Gelsinger, Paul's son, died in a gene therapy clinical trial. But...

Bioethics

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

By Jesse Reynolds, Bioethics Forum | 04.04.2008

The embryonic stem cell research controversy may finally be moving to a new stage, and perhaps closer to a good...

Human Cloning