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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
group protesting abortion bans

House’s Hyde Amendment Vote Advances Abortion Justice and Racial Equity

By Destiny Lopez, Truthout | 08.12.2021

Congress just took a historic step forward for racial, economic and reproductive justice 45 years in the making. Every year...

U.S. Federal
pill bottles with pills spilled out in front

National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers

By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | 08.12.2021

To several U.S. senators, it looked wasteful, even outrageous. Every year, taxpayers pay for at least $750 million worth of...

U.S. Federal

The Wild West of Fertility Clinics

By Madeline Verniero, The Regulatory Review | 08.10.2021

As of 2018, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has resulted in the births of approximately 8 million babies. IVF has also ...

Policies
a man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk

Remote work made life easier for many people with disabilities. They want the option to stay

By Neelam Bohra and AJ Willingham, CNN | 08.10.2021

Gabe Moses prefers to work his eight-hour shift for a call center while lying on his stomach, resting on a...

Bioethics

‘Socialized Research’ and ‘Privatized Profits’: California's Gene Therapy Research and Million Dollar Plus Treatments

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.09.2021

Only eight days after the California stem cell agency approved its most recent award for its $60 million battle against...

Stem Cells
2 giraffes

Giraffes May Be as Socially Complex as Chimps and Elephants

By Cara Giaimo, The New York Times | 08.07.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 2.5 on Wikimedia Commons

Giraffes seem above it all. They float over the...

Genomics
a banner saying eugenics over a tree

They, the people

By Patricia J. Williams, TLS | 08.06.2021

In 1853, Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau published a tract entitled “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races”, in which...

Eugenics
GMO corn field with signs

USDA’s actions on gene-edited approvals challenged in court

By Jacqui Fatka, Farm Progress | 08.06.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY 2.0 on Wikimedia Commons

In May 2020, the previous administration’s USDA issued its...

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