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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 Lost Embryos

By Katherine Rosman, The New York Times | 04.16.2021

When the first letter from Women & Infants Hospital arrived in the mail in July 2017, Elaine Meyer thought perhaps...

Assisted Reproduction
monkey mother and child

Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey

By Rob Stein, NPR | 04.15.2021

Photo by Darrell Fraser on Unsplash

For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human...

Human Genetic Modification
courtroom

Conservative Judges Are Manipulating the History of Eugenics to Overturn Roe v. Wade

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 04.15.2021

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld an Ohio law that prohibits doctors from...

U.S. States
lab work

From gene bombs to classroom curriculum

By Svetlana Reiter, Alexander Ershov, and Farida Rustamova, Meduza | 04.14.2021

Until recently, the Russian authorities showed little interest in genetics. The breakthrough came in 2019, when the government allocated 127...

Human Genetic Modification

Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics

By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.13.2021

AI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science. The same could be said for effective...

Biotech & Pharma
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Ronald Fisher Is Not Being ‘Cancelled’, But His Eugenic Advocacy Should Have Consequences

By Eric Michael Johnson, This View of Life | 04.12.2021

Photo by Schutz, stained glass designed by Maria McClafferty,
CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

While Black Lives Matter protests...

Genomics

The genetic mistakes that could shape our species

By Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future | 04.12.2021

He Jiankui seemed nervous.

At the time, he was an obscure researcher working at the Southern University of Science and Technology...

Human Genetic Modification
Uyghur Man

AI companies are enabling genocide in China

By Michael Chertoff and N. MacDonnell Ulsch, The Washington Post | 04.12.2021

"Uyghur man" by Evgeni Zotov is
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uyghur people...

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