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

CANADA CONSIDERS COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION ON ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 10.02.2003

The fate of Canadian legislation that would provide one of the world's most comprehensive regulatory frameworks for assisted reproduction and...

Sex Selection: New Technologies, New Forms of Gender Discrimination

By Rajani Bhatia, Rupsa Mallik, and Shamita Das Dasgupta | 10.01.2003

With the advent of reproductive technologies that made it possible to detect the sex of a fetus developing in a...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sex Selection Goes Mainstream

By Marcy Darnovsky, Alternet | 09.25.2003

Several times over the past few months, a small but striking ad from a Virginia-based fertility clinic has appeared in...

Media Coverage

Of Sheep and Men

By Koichiro Matsuura, The Daily Star | 09.16.2003

Dolly is dead. The most famous sheep in the world, also the first mammal to be cloned from an adult...

Global Governance

Breeding Only the Best

By Tony Platt, Los Angeles Times | 09.07.2003

Nancy Ordover, American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism
University of Minnesota Press: 240 pp., $18.95 paper...

Human Genetic Modification

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning, Genetic Modification, Genetic Selection, Gene Therapy

By Viginia Commonwealth University, Viginia Commonwealth University | 09.03.2003

How much do you favor or oppose...

Strongly Favor

Somewhat Favor

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Society

Professor's probe of sterilizations finds relevance in modern science

By Stephen Watson, Buffalo News | 09.01.2003

It's been 50 years, but one sentence in a Supreme Court decision that Julius Paul read during a class in...

Eugenics

Sex Selection Moves to Consumer Culture

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 08.20.2003

Several times over the past few months, a small but striking ad from a Virginia-based fertility clinic has appeared in...

Media Coverage