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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
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First sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR gene-editing still thriving

By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.31.2021

"Sickle cell disease (SCD)" by National Institutes
of Health (NIH) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

For more than a...

Human Genetic Modification
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Sickle Cell Math Is Brutally Simple, but Not Widely Taught

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 12.28.2021

OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

No doctor ever counseled Lametra Scott and her husband, Rickey Buggs...

Genetic Selection

Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail

By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, The New York Times Magazine | 12.27.2021

On any given day, CeCe Moore’s inbox is flooded with strangers asking her to solve the mysteries of life and...

Bioethics

How Biotech Crops Can Crash—and Still Never Fail

By Aniket Aga, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Scientific American | 12.27.2021

The United Nations Food Systems Summit held last September was eclipsed by a powerful countermobilization effort led by farmers and...

Biotech & Pharma

A Popular Test Claims to Boost I.V.F. Success. The Science Is Unclear.

By Amy Klein, The New York Times | 12.18.2021

For patients undergoing in vitro fertilization, there is a common test to help determine the best time to transfer the...

Assisted Reproduction
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Stem cell agency: Following the money — and its performance

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 12.17.2021

One year ago this month, a $5.5 billion wave washed over California’s ambitious stem cell agency and left it refreshed...

Policies
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Rushing Quebec’s Bill 2 risks leaving many voices unheard

By Alana Cattapan, Vanessa Gruben, Stefanie Carsley and Angela Cameron, CTV News | 12.14.2021

Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash

Last month, the Quebec government introduced Bill 2, which aims to comprehensively amend Quebec’s...

Policies
Uyghurs in an internment camp

Journal Retracts Paper Based On DNA of Vulnerable Chinese Minorities

By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 12.13.2021

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A highly regarded scientific journal has retracted a paper based on...

Society