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

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2021

At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known...

Perspectives

Oxford malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

By Sarah Bosely, The Guardian | 04.23.2021

^{Photo by Lucio Patone on Unsplash}

A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in ...

Society

Bayer plots big cell therapy building as master plan for Berkeley site moves forward

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2021

Human Genetic Modification

Standard IVF is fine for most people. So why are so many offered an expensive sperm injection they don’t need?

By Robert Norman and Ben W. Moi, The Conversation | 04.22.2021

An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clinics around the world, offers no extra benefits to standard IVF in...

Assisted Reproduction

The Lasting Impact of Eugenics: An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley

By Eleanor J. Bader, The Progressive | 04.20.2021

When nurse Dawn Wooten blew the whistle on medical staff at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia last fall...

U.S. Federal

Inside the rise of police department real-time crime centers

By Rowan Moore Gerety, MIT Technology Review | 04.19.2021

At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a...

Paradise altered: EPA approves first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida Keys

By Taylor White, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 04.19.2021

This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology...

Animal Biotechnologies

I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.

By Alexis McGill Johnson, New York Times | 04.17.2021

We need to talk about Margaret Sanger.

For the 11 years that I’ve been involved with Planned Parenthood, founded by...

Perspectives