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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

The FDA Is Broken

By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, Washington Monthly | 07.10.2021

Between 2010 and 2015, drug companies submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for three different drugs...

Society

California once forcibly sterilized people by the thousands. Now the victims may get reparations.

By Derek Hawkins, Washington Post | 07.09.2021

A brutal chapter in American history began in 1909 with the stroke of a doctor’s pen.

California’s eugenics law, enacted...

Eugenics

'black women's lives matter' on a sign during a protest

Banning Abortion Doesn’t Protect Women’s Health

By Michele Goodwin, New York Times | 07.09.2021

^{Photo by Max Bender on Unsplash}

During its coming term, the Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of a Mississippi...

Eugenics

California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations

By Adam Beam, AP | 07.07.2021

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of...

U.S. States

Ohio Will Now Allow Doctors to Refuse Treatment to LGBTQ+ Patients Over Religious Beliefs

By Nico Lang, them. | 07.07.2021

Ohio will now allow medical providers to refuse treatment that violates their religious beliefs after conservatives snuck language into the...

U.S. States

China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women

By Kirsty Needham and Clare Baldwin, Reuters | 07.07.2021

A Chinese gene company selling prenatal tests around the world developed them in collaboration with the country's military and is...

Genomics

Whole genome sequencing of all UK newborns ‘would have public support’

By Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.04.2021

Plans to sequence the whole genome of every newborn in the UK in order to spot those at heightened risk...

Genomics

Orange County Prosecutors Operate “Vast, Secretive” Genetic Surveillance Program

By Jordan Smith, The Intercept | 07.03.2021

William Thompson, a professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine, lives in University Hills...

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