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
Swimming in a lap pool

21st Century Olympic Doping

By Robin Donovan, NEO.LIFE | 07.22.2021

Photo by Serena Repice Lentini on Unsplash

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finally set to kick off this week...

Society
gray short-tailed opossum

In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 07.21.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 2.5

When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the...

Animal Biotechnologies
California Victim Compensation Board

California Approves Reparations for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

By Mina Kim, KQED Forum | 07.21.2021

In the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other...

Eugenics

Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know | 07.21.2021

Next week in Rome, world leaders will gather to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the...

Genomics
eugenics tree

Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

By Erin McCormick, The Guardian | 07.19.2021

It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she...

Eugenics

Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’

By Mary Papenfuss, Huffpost | 07.16.2021

In a new political low in Texas, the Republican-dominated state Senate has passed a bill to eliminate a...

U.S. States

CRISPR therapies march into clinic, but genotoxicity concerns linger

By Cormac Sheridan, Nature | 07.15.2021

A recent study has identified another potential hazard for developers of genome editing therapies based on CRISPR–Cas9. The double-strand DNA...

Human Genetic Modification
sickle cells

Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality

By Ted W. Love, STAT | 07.15.2021

Covid-19 laid bare the long-standing vulnerability of minority and low-income communities in U.S. society and its health system even as...

Biotech & Pharma