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

Researchers Detour Around Stem-Cell Rules

By Bijal Trivedi, Chronicle of Higher Education | 10.01.2007

James A. Byrne sits in a waiting room at the Stanford Fertility & Reproductive Medicine Center with an incubator next...

Human Cloning

Death in gene therapy trial raises questions about private IRBs

By Heidi Ledford, Nature Biotechnology | 09.30.2007

Osagie Obasogie took notice when he heard about the death of Jolee Mohr, who passed away on July 24 after...

Biotech & Pharma

Report Assails F.D.A. Oversight of Clinical Trials

By GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times | 09.28.2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of...

U.S. Federal

Human Ova Trade to Be Banned

By Kim Rahn, The Korea Times | 09.27.2007

Limited scientific research on somatic cell nuclear transfers for possible cures of fatal diseases will be permitted following a revision...

Other Countries

Therapeutic misconception and stem cell research

By Mildred K. Cho & David Magnus, Nature Reports Stem Cells | 09.27.2007

Therapeutic misconception is a problem for all research aimed at developing treatments for human diseases. The term "therapeutic misconception" was...

Human Cloning

The God of Sperm

By Steven Kotler, LA Weekly | 09.26.2007

The world's largest collections of stored genetic material are found in Sussex, England, Spitsbergen, Norway - and Los Angeles.

Sussex...

Assisted Reproduction

DNA unraveled

By Colin Nickerson, Boston Globe | 09.24.2007

The science of life is undergoing changes so jolting that even its top researchers are feeling something akin to shell-shock...

Genomics

Of Animal Eggs and Human Embryos

By Editors, New York Times | 09.24.2007

Stem cell research in the United States has been hobbled for years by severe and misguided restrictions on federal funding...

Human Cloning