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
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Texas OB/GYN: My Existence Is In Violation Of The New Abortion Law

By Michel Martin, NPR | 08.29.2021

Photo by Do512 on Flickr

Ahead of Texas' abortion ban going into effect on Sept. 1, NPR's Michel Martin speaks...

U.S. States
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The Census Has Revealed A More Multiracial U.S. One Reason? Cheaper DNA Tests

By Hansi Lo Wang, NPR | 08.28.2021

For about 1 in 10 people counted for last year's U.S. census, a single check box was not enough to...

Genomics
Muir Woods: a path through redwood trees

Muir Woods park staff annotates own signs with historical corrections for racism, misogyny

By Ashley Harrell, SFGate | 08.26.2021

Photo by Matthew Dillon on Flickr

From far away, the caution tape and sheet of paper attached to an interpretative...

Civil Society
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Why Autistic People Are Worried by Spectrum 10K

By Robert Chapman, Psychology Today | 08.25.2021

"48:365 World Autism Awareness Day" 
by mattbeckwith is licensed
under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

As many people in the autistic...

A "Post-Human" Future?

The fertility industry is poorly regulated – and would-be parents can lose out on having children as a result

By Naomi Cahn and Dena Sharp, The Conversation | 08.23.2021

When embryologist Joseph Conaghan arrived at work at San Francisco’s Pacific Fertility Center on March 4, 2018, nothing seemed awry...

Assisted Reproduction
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Global Movement Aims To Improve Lives Of People With Disabilities

By Shaun Heasley, Disability Scoop | 08.23.2021

An ambitious campaign involving groups ranging from the Paralympics to the United Nations is kicking off with a goal of...

Perspectives

WHO guidelines on human genome editing: why countries need to follow them

By Sheetal Soni, The Conversation | 08.22.2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently called on countries to stop any research that might lead to the birth of...

Policies
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CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang's latest work delivers mRNA, gene therapy with a human protein

By Angus Liu, Fierce Biotech | 08.19.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and existing gene therapies, including those...

Genetic Selection