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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

John Fetterman gives us a chance to banish eugenic ideas of fitness

By Jaipreet Virdi, The Washington Post | 11.04.2022

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Democrat John Fetterman’s performance in Pennsylvania’s lone Senate debate provoked intense discussions about his fitness...

U.S. States

These strangers all have the same biological father: the fertility doctor who helped their parents have a baby

By Vanessa Caldwell, CBC | 11.03.2022

There are dozens of “Karbaat children” in the Netherlands. Their biological father is Jan Karbaat, a Dutch fertility doctor who...

Genomics

Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation

By Matthew Herper, STAT | 11.03.2022

The first time I remember hearing the words “biology’s century,” it was a sales pitch.

I was standing by the...

Genomics

sperm colored blue swimming across a black background

What does the booming sperm-donor industry owe to people it helps conceive?

By Sarah Todd, Quartz | 11.03.2022

Trying to decide on a sperm donor means sorting through a dizzying amount of information.

Log onto the site of...

Policies

Historic Meeting Ushers In New Era In US Donor Conception

By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 11.02.2022

Disclaimer: I attended and presented at this meeting, as discussed in the column. The views expressed are mine alone...

Policies

Experimenting With Disaster, Part 3

By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 11.01.2022

Part 1; Part 2

IT STARTED WITH a bold idea. “Someone finally convinced me to do something really, really stupid,” virologist...

U.S. Federal

Experimenting With Disaster, Part 2

By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 11.01.2022

Part 1; Part 3

AT THE MOMENT that the ferret bit him, the researcher was smack in the middle of...

U.S. Federal

Experimenting With Disaster, Part 1

By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 11.01.2022

Part 2; Part 3

THE GRADUATE STUDENT was alone in the lab on a Saturday, handling a mouse infected...

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