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

Report struggles with surrogacy issue

By Hidekazu Tanaka, Daily Yomiuri | 03.25.2008

The Science Council of Japan's subcommittee on reproductive assistance medicine recently issued a report that said surrogate births should, in...

Other Countries

Embryo Bill is Plank of Gordon Brown's Agenda

By Andrew Porter, Telegraph | 03.24.2008

For Gordon Brown - to whom the Bill means so much - and Geoff Hoon, his chief whip, the prospect...

Religion

Cloning treats mouse Parkinson's

By BBC, BBC | 03.23.2008

The study in Nature Medicine provides the best evidence so far that the controversial technique could one day help people...

Stem Cells

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

By Marcy Darnovsky, AlterNet | 03.22.2008

For Boomers and the World War II generation, Aldous Huxley's 1932 Brave New World is the touchstone tale of a...

Arts & Culture

Brave New World War

By Jamie Metzl, Democracy | 03.21.2008

In the fall of 2006, a BBC wire report speculated that global economic inequality and rapid advances in genetic engineering...

Civil Society

Scientists Urge Stem Cell Reality Check

By Suzanne Bohan, Alameda Times-Star | 03.20.2008

HALF MOON BAY - In an elegant hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, more than 30 of the world's leading stem...

Stem Cells

The Genome Gets Personal—Almost

By W. Gregory Feero, MD, PhD; Alan E. Guttmacher, MD; Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD , The Journal of the American Medical Association | 03.19.2008

It's the "Year of Perfect Vision," 2020. Amy, age 21 years, visits with her physician and elects to have complete...

Genomics

Put young children on DNA list, urge police

By Mark Townsend and Anushka Asthana , The Observer | 03.17.2008

Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in...