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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...

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Genomics’ Ethical Gray Areas Are Harming the Developing World

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Undark Magazine | 02.24.2022

Since the first human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, scientists have touted the breakthrough as a blessing to humanity...

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Thomas Insel

The ‘Nation’s Psychiatrist’ Takes Stock, With Frustration

By Ellen Barry, The New York Times | 02.22.2022

Official photo of Thomas Insel from the NIMH Office of the Director

A new book by Dr. Thomas P. Insel...

Genomics

Gene-Edited Brain Organoids Are Unlocking the Secrets of Autism

By Amit Katwala, Wired | 02.21.2022

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complicated range of conditions affecting the behavior, social...

Genomics
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Ukraine: Ireland ‘speeds up’ exit for surrogate babies

By BBC, BBC | 02.21.2022

The Irish government has expedited plans for families with newborn surrogate babies to travel immediately from Ukraine.

It comes as...

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President Biden's Cabinet members sitting in chairs and wearing masks

Biden doesn’t get it

By H. Holden Thorp, Science | 02.18.2022

It has been a rough 2 weeks for the US science community. After 4 years of bludgeoning by the Trump...

Media Coverage
Black mother holding a newborn baby

Black women, long ignored in infertility discussions, speak out

By Shelia Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 02.18.2022

Photo licensed for reuse under CC-BY SA 3.0

Penelope Marshall McCown struggled for years to have a baby.

She and...

Perspectives
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The Moral Danger of Declaring the Pandemic Over Too Soon

By Gregg Gonsalves, The New York Times | 02.17.2022

The early 1990s were in many ways the most terrible of those first years of the AIDS epidemic in America...

Perspectives
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Lifting the California mask mandate basically says chronically ill and disabled lives don’t matter

By Dipti S. Barot, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.16.2022

Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash

As the omicron surge wanes, and the experts read the sewage like tea leaves...

Eugenics