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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

Donors Sustain Stem-Cell Effort In California Amid Funding Battle

By David P. Hamilton, Wall Street Journal | 08.16.2006
Even as legal challenges have tied up funding for California's ambitious $3 billion effort to fund stem-cell research, big-dollar contributions...
Stem Cells

Some Scientists See Shift in Stem Cell Hopes

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 08.14.2006
In the five years since President Bush authorized and at the same time restricted research on human embryonic stem cells...

Letter-to-the-editor: Groups' focus is safety of egg donors

By Sujatha Jesudason and Judy Norsigian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 08.12.2006

It's ironic that Focus on the Family, an organization that is opposed to abortion, same-sex unions and comprehensive sex education...

U.S. States

Patient dies after IVF treatment

By BBC News, BBC News | 08.10.2006

Officials at the Leicester Royal Infirmary confirmed a patient had lost her life on Monday after undergoing IVF treatment at...

Assisted Reproduction

Women's risk is issue in Missouri stem cell debate

By Matt Franck, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 08.06.2006
A proposed constitutional amendment protecting stem cell research is likely to rise or fall on whether Missourians view a mass...
Stem Cells

Stem-cell institute has money, will fund research

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 08.03.2006
Running with the $150 million loan it just got from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the board overseeing California's $3 billion stem-cell...
Stem Cells

Editorial: Public confidence in stem-cell institute demands full disclosure

By San Jose Mercury News, San Jose Mercury News | 07.31.2006

California's great stem-cell experiment faces a moment of truth this week.

Wednesday, in San Francisco, the state's stem-cell institute must...

Society

Hold fire on therapeutic cloning until there's proof it works

By John Martin, Sydney Morning Herald | 07.26.2006
ALTHOUGH I share the great enthusiasm for the successes of Australia's medical research, those achievements have been won within a...
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