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

a woman holds up a sign protesting sterilization of women

California’s little-known history of eugenics

By Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.03.2022

^{"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting

proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”

Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...}

Human Genetic Modification

A single genetic mutation made humans more susceptible to cancer

By Alice Klein, New Scientist | 05.03.2022

A tiny change in our DNA that occurred after we evolved away from other primates has made us more prone...

Genomics

Fertility treatment use is on the rise – new legislation could increase protections for donors and families in an industry shrouded in secrecy

By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 05.03.2022

^{Photo by Pritamprajapati9 via wikimedia}

The fertility industry generates approximately US$8 billion in revenue annually and plays a role in...

Policies

‘It’s a Terrible Thing When a Grown Person Does Not Belong to Herself’

By Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 05.03.2022

^{Photo by Astaken on Flickr}

On Feb. 24, in the early hours of a cold, dark morning in Lviv, two...

Other Countries

a science building with a model of the human brain and skull made of transparent plastic

As PopSci turns 150, we reflect on the highs and lows of our long history

By Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science | 05.02.2022

^{Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash}

The work of creating science has been organized for centuries,” wrote Popular Science founder...

Eugenics

Where Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Lives Today

By Cara J. Chang, Isabella B. Cho, Ella L. Jones, And Monique I. Vobecky, The Harvard Crimson | 05.02.2022

^{Photo by Manu Ros on Unsplash}

Harvard’s campus is replete with the names of prominent historical figures who were essential...

Perspectives

Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots

By Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker | 05.02.2022

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete...

U.S. States

3 dna double helixes of 3 different colors

Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast

By Anna C. F. Lewis, STAT | 05.02.2022

Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not...

Genomics