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

Opinion: A truce in the stem cell wars?

By Richard Hayes, San Francisco Examiner | 11.24.2006

The contentious midterm elections clearly left a mark on the politics of stem cell research, but it’s not clear what...

Stem Cells

Richard Dawkins: Breed humans like cows, horses and dogs?

By Richard Hayes, Biopolitical Times | 11.24.2006

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins suggests that we entertain the possibility of breeding human beings as we do cows, horses and...

Eugenics

U.N. Leader Urges Biotech Safeguards

By Reuters, Reuters | 11.19.2006

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Nov. 18 (Reuters) — Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations warned Saturday that the potential...

Global Governance

Selecting children's sports with $100 gene-test swabs leaves playtime in the cold

By Roy MacGregor, Globe and Mail | 11.15.2006

On one of those November days that seem to cling to you like a cold, wet leaf, I have just...

Genetic Selection

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies [PDF]

By Sujatha Jesudason | 11.15.2006

Mortal Combat

By William Saletan, Slate | 11.11.2006

By one o'clock Wednesday morning, Democrats had taken the lead in the U.S. Senate races in Virginia and Montana. Control...

U.S. States

Climate change for stem cell work: Democrats may be able to override Bush's funding limits

By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.10.2006

Politics has long reined in stem cell research, but Tuesday's election may have put the spurs to it, industry insiders...

Stem Cells

Building Movements [PDF]

By Sujatha Jesudason | 11.09.2006

Racial Justice