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

She Has Stem Cells in Her Crosshairs

By Elizabeth Preston, NEO.LIFE | 08.05.2021

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In 2017, Agnieszka Czechowicz watched a four-year-old girl sleeping soundly in a California hospital...

Stem Cells

These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race

By Tom Simonite, Wired | 08.05.2021

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Millions of dollars are being spent to develop artificial intelligence...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Women protesting with signs that read "stop abortion bans"

The governor was right to veto a dangerous NC abortion bill

By Rebecca Todd Peters, The Charlotte Observer | 08.04.2021

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The N.C. legislature is soon expected to vote on whether to override or uphold...

U.S. States

How ‘race-norming’ was built into the NFL concussion settlement

By Will Hobson, The Washington Post | 08.02.2021

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CHANDLER, Ariz. — At first glance, Rick Cunningham looks ...

Arts & Culture

The next debate on embryo science

By Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 08.02.2021

A longstanding prohibition against culturing human embryos for more than 14 days is now open for discussion, according to revised...

Stem Cells

Countries with a cultural preference for sons likely to lose another 4.7 million girls by 2030

By Emily Henderson, News Medical | 07.31.2021

Countries with a skewed sex ratio at birth, because of a cultural preference for sons, are set to ‘lose’ another...

Policies

Genetic Testing ‘Strongly Recommended’ For Kids With Intellectual Disability

By Michelle Diament , Disability Scoop | 07.30.2021

A new recommendation from a leading medical association is urging children with intellectual disability, developmental delay and other congenital anomalies...

Disability Rights

The nature (and nurture) of IQ

By Meredith Wadman, Science | 07.30.2021

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In July 1934, psychologist Harold Skeels evaluated...

Bioethics