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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...

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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...

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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...

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After a decade, CRISPR gene editing is a 'revolution in progress.' What does the future hold?

By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 01.30.2023

Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first...

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The human genome needs updating. But how do we make it fair?

By Ida Emilie Steinmark, The Guardian | 01.29.2023

^{Photo by National Human Research Institute on Flickr}

In June 2000, Bill Clinton, the then US president, stood smilingly next...

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an old poster that says "stop forced sterilization"

The Dark History of the Eugenics Movement in Northern California Has Chilling Implications for Today

By Julie Zigoris, The San Francisco Standard | 01.26.2023

It’s easy to think of eugenics as something that happened far away from us, with ideals alien to our character...

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a collage that shows various assisted reproductive technologies. It is composed of various cartoon images surrounding fertility that is white, blue, and pink. This is on a teal background.

Victim Advocates Convene In DC Over It’s-About-Time Federal Fertility Fraud Bill

By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 01.25.2023

On January 23, Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), Julia Letlow (R-La.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) introduced the Protecting...

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