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...

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Science article on eugenics 1921

The Eugenics Movement in Retrospect

By Rob DeSalle, Natural History | 12.11.2021

One hundred years ago, the Second International Congress of Eugenics was held from September 22-28, 1921, at the American Museum...

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On the legacies of eugenics

By Marius Turda, Challenging Pseudoscience (Apple Podcast) | 12.10.2021

This episode is a recording of a talk given by medical historian, Marius Turda, at the Royal Institution in September...

U.S. States

The big idea: how much do we really want to know about our genes?

By Daniel M Davis, The Guardian | 12.06.2021

While at the till in a clothes shop, Ruby received a call. She recognised the woman’s voice as the genetic...

Genetic Selection
Weaving genes together

GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?

By Dave King, Red Pepper | 12.06.2021

Hongjie mao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In late 2018, when He Jiankui announced that he had created...

Human Genetic Modification
PGD selection

IVF used by some to avoid passing on genetic diseases to offspring

By Jamie Talan, The Washington Post | 12.04.2021

By Fotograf Kallestad, Gorm / NTB Scanpix. CC BY NC 4.0

In vitro fertilization (IVF), widely known as a way...

Assisted Reproduction
Francis Collins

Science misinformation alarms Francis Collins as he leaves top NIH job

By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 12.03.2021

This month, Francis Collins will step down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than...

Genomics
DNA microarray

Scientists claim big advance in using DNA to store data

By Paul Rincon, BBC | 12.01.2021

DNA microarray image by Guillaume Paumier, 
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Scientists say...

Genomics

Controversial mitochondrial donation legislation passed after conscience vote

By Sarah Martin, The Guardian | 12.01.2021

Members of parliament have voted to legalise controversial mitochondrial donation in the first conscience vote since same-sex marriage in 2017...

Human Genetic Modification