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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

For stem cell commission, conflicts may be hard to avoid

By Erin Bryant, Capital News Service | 10.20.2006
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Stem Cell Commission is the state panel charged with distributing $15 million in research grants to...
Stem Cells

Entrepreneur Puts Himself Up for Study In Genetic 'Tell-All'

By ANTONIO REGALADO, Wall Street Journal | 10.18.2006
J. Craig Venter, a biologist and brash entrepreneur, started a recent day with a bowl of oatmeal and skim milk...
Biotech & Pharma

Measure poses hard-to-answer question to Missouri voters

By Matt Franck, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 10.07.2006
Missouri voters are being asked whether an issue before them would kill cloned human embryos or cure the world of...
Stem Cells

Stem cell experts seek licence to create human-rabbit embryo

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 10.05.2006
British scientists are seeking approval to create embryos by fusing human cells with animal eggs in controversial research which will...
Stem Cells

Stem cell plans include creation of embryo bank

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 10.05.2006
California's stem cell institute yesterday unveiled its plans for spending $3 billion in a 149-page, no-hype document that sets what...
Stem Cells

Candid forecast on stem cell research hopes

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.05.2006
State officials running the California Proposition 71 stem cell program issued a 10-year scientific spending plan Wednesday that suggests even...
Stem Cells

Hope, unfulfilled promises on stem cell work

By Sally Lehrman, Boston Globe | 10.01.2006
IN AUGUST, Advanced Cell Technology reported in the journal Nature that it had created embryonic stem cells for the first...
Biotech & Pharma

Governor Signs Bill Protecting Egg Donors

By LA Times Staff, Los Angeles Times | 09.27.2006
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signed a bill designed to protect women who donate their eggs for use in stem...
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