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 Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Very Big Business

By Anna Merlan, Vice | 10.06.2021

When desperate parents are looking for medical treatment for their kids, especially their autistic kids, they often do two things...

Stem Cells
Francis Collins

Francis Collins, Who Guided N.I.H. Through Covid-19 Crisis, Is Exiting

By Noah Weiland and Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.05.2021

WASHINGTON — Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, holed up in an Airbnb in...

Society

At-home genetic testing for cancer and other disease risk is booming: Should you try it?

By A. Pawlowski, Today | 10.04.2021

Breast Cancer Awareness Month will cause many women to worry about their hereditary risk for developing the disease, especially if...

Society
DNA gel

The ethical landscape(s) of non-invasive prenatal testing in England, France and Germany: findings from a comparative literature review

By Adeline Perrot & Ruth Horn, European Journal of Human Genetics | 10.04.2021

Abstract

Since 2019, England, France and Germany have started offering NIPT as a publicly funded second-tier test for common chromosomal...

Genomics
Sue-meg State Park

California state park with ties to racist past will now be called by Indigenous name

By Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times | 10.04.2021

Photo by Kirt Edblom on Flickr

Skip Lowry learned the Indigenous dances of the Yurok people as a child by...

Civil Society
Microscope images of HeLa cells colored in green and blue

Family of Henrietta Lacks files suit against biotech company for using famous ‘HeLa’ cells without permission

By Meredith Cohn and Hallie Miller, The Baltimore Sun | 10.04.2021

Family members of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific accusing the company...

Biotech & Pharma
Free Britney Spears protest

Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women

By Michaela Kathleen Curran, The Conversation | 10.01.2021

Photo by Mike Maguire on Flickr

Britney Spears has been locked in a court battle 13 years in the making...

Media Coverage

Will Sociogenomics Reduce Social Inequality?

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center | 09.30.2021

In her new book, Kathryn Paige Harden is full of hope that insights from genetics will become powerful tools...

Bioethics