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

Elimination of conflicts of interest at stem cell institute target of bill

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 02.23.2008

A bipartisan bill introduced in the state Senate yesterday would authorize California's Little Hoover Commission to investigate how the state...

Patents & Other IP

Why Some Single Women Choose to Freeze Their Eggs

By Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal | 02.14.2008

Lucia Vazquez, 33, a single New Yorker, is a sensible professional, her friends say. She works hard at her career...

Assisted Reproduction

Japanese firm to offer first-of-a-kind gene advice

By AFP, AFP | 02.13.2008

A Japanese company will soon start advising people what they should eat and how they should exercise based on custom-made...

Biotech & Pharma

Human stem cell tests could be near

By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney | 02.11.2008

The first experiments using human embryonic stem cells in human subjects could begin within a few months, the chief executive...

Stem Cells

Slow Calif. science plan a lesson for Mass.

By Todd Wallack, Boston Globe | 02.11.2008

The same day that President Bush won a second term, California voters approved a bold plan to pour $3 billion...

Fact Sheets

Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

By Jamie D. Brooks and Meredith L. King , Genetic Crossroads | 02.07.2008

This joint report [PDF] by the Center for American Progress and the Center for Genetics and Society examines the mainstream...

A new path for stem cell research, without Holy Grails

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 02.07.2008

The field of stem cell research is changing shape almost as fast as the flexible cells themselves. A series of...

Stem Cells

Myriad Genetics Considers Expanding Ad Campaign for Cancer-Gene Test

By Marilyn Chase, Wall Street Journal | 02.06.2008

A contentious ad campaign for Myriad Genetics Inc.'s breast-cancer gene test has attracted customers and increased sales for several products...

Biotech & Pharma