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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

As DNA Donors’ Secrets Emerge, What Should the Children Know?

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.27.2022

Tyler Sniff took a home DNA test at 32 years old and unexpectedly learned that the man who raised him...

Genomics

Employer fertility benefits have a dramatic and startling expansion amid the Great Resignation, experts say

By Michelle Fox, CNBC | 05.27.2022

Photo by Benjamin Child on Unsplash

As employers try to entice new workers and keep the ones they have, more...

Assisted Reproduction

The Pandora’s Box of Embryo Testing Is Officially Open

By Carey Goldberg, Bloomberg | 05.26.2022

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Simone Collins knew she was pregnant the moment she answered the phone. She was...

Assisted Reproduction

the cover of The Genetic Lottery. A book by Kathryn Paige Harden

‘Why Biology Is Not Destiny’: An Exchange

By Kathryn Paige Harden et al., The New York Review | 05.25.2022

In response to:

Why Biology Is Not Destiny from the April 21, 2022 issue

To the Editors:

Marcus Feldman...

Human Genetic Modification

Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy

By Janet D. Stemwedel , The Scientific American | 05.24.2022

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The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened...

Genomics

a person holding a white protest sign that says "disarm mass killer ban assault weapons" this is at a protest

Buffalo shooting ignites a debate over the role of genetics researchers in white supremacist ideology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.23.2022

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The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and...

U.S. States

From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future

By Benedict Ipgrave, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Marcy Darnovsky, Subhadra Das, Charlene Galarneau, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Nora Ellen Groce, Tony Platt, Milton Reynolds, Marius Turda, Robert A Wilson, The Lancet | 05.21.2022

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Salary, Integrity and Selection of a New Chair for California’s $12 Billion Cell and Gene Therapy Enterprise

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 05.20.2022

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The directors of the $12 billion California stem cell agency are looking for a...

Stem Cells