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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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a bunch of sperm surrounding an egg

Washington lawmakers are considering criminalizing fertility fraud — but what exactly is that?

By Libby Denkmann and Sarah Leibovitz , NPR | 01.31.2022

Consumer DNA testing kits like 23andMe or Ancestry have opened up a new world of information for children conceived using...

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“It’s going to be hugely stressful” – Irish couples expecting babies via surrogacy in Ukraine urged to contact DFA

By Amy Molloy, Independent.ie | 01.27.2022

Irish couples expecting babies via surrogacy in Ukraine are expected to receive special diplomatic assistance amid concerns over the security...

Other Countries
Baby crawling within a DNA fence

UK government advisers call for ‘proactive regulation’ around genomics

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 01.26.2022

Before your child is born, you have their genome tweaked to boost their stature, build and intelligence. When they head...

Policies
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Can an Equation to Help Determine Kidney Health Be Racist?

By Jill Neimark, Undark Magazine | 01.26.2022

"creatinine" by Lori Greig is licensed under CC 2.0

On the morning of June 19, 2020—Juneteenth, now a...

Bioethics
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2022 State Legislative Efforts Bring New Hope For Those Struggling With Infertility

By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 01.26.2022

"GLERL Scientist uses Lab's Inverted Microscope" by 
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory 
is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0...

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‘Unproven and unethical’: experts warn against genetic embryo tests

By Linda Geddes, The Guardian | 01.25.2022

Experts have warned against the “unproven” and “unethical” use of genetic tests to predict the risk of complex diseases in...

Genetic Selection
The cover of the report

Disabled People Can Still Be Forcibly Sterilized in Over Half of the US

By Rewire News Group Staff, Rewire News Group | 01.25.2022

A National Women’s Law Center report released today shines a light on the dark reality of modern-day eugenics.

More than...

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Abnormal mouse mitochondria

On the road to treating mitochondrial disease

By Danielle Gerhard, Drug Discovery News | 01.24.2022

"Abnormal Mouse Mitochondria" 
by National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Mitochondrial disease, whether...

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