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

"Personalized" Embryonic Stem Cells for Sale

By Emily Singer, MIT Technology Review | 08.30.2007

It's a new, rather dicey form of life insurance. A company in California called StemLifeLine has announced that it will...

Stem Cells

Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin

By Richard Owen, Times Online [UK] | 08.29.2007

Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a botched selective abortion that the Vatican has described as the result of...

Bioethics

[Illinois] Governor allows stem-cell funding

By Monique Garcia, Chicago Tribune | 08.29.2007

In an effort to woo researchers and investors to Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday signed a bill that allows public...

Stem Cells

CIRM Loses its No. 1 Scientist

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 08.27.2007

The top scientist at the California stem cell agency, Arlene Chiu, will soon depart in a move that reinforces...

Stem Cells

Your Gamete, Myself

By Marcy Darnovsky, [Letter to the Editor] New York Times Magazine | 08.26.2007

Peggy Orenstein's article (July 15) about the experiences of women who conceive and bear children using other women's eggs focuses...

Assisted Reproduction

Technique able to sort for faster sperm

By Science Daily, Science Daily | 08.24.2007

The Universities of California, Irvine and San Diego have developed a rapid new sorting technique to screen for faster sperm...

Genetic Selection

New Mo. group targets stem-cell work

By David A. Lieb, ASSOCIATED PRESS | 08.22.2007

Missouri's battle over embryonic stem cell research intensified today as a new group proposed a ballot measure seeking to outlaw...

Stem Cells

Home DNA tests create medical, ethical quandaries

By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.21.2007

Want to find out your baby's gender? Or who the father is? What about whether you possess a gene that...

Biotech & Pharma