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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
BLM protest

Race and Biology

By Beth Baker , BioScience | 01.15.2021

Researchers grapple with health disparities, systemic racism.

In 2020, a confluence of events brought the ongoing legacy of structural racism...

Eugenics

DARPA Awards $36.7M to Six Organizations for Gene Editing-Based Dx, Biosurveillance Tech

By Staff, GenomeWeb | 01.14.2021

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract worth up to $36.7 million over four years to...

Synthetic Biology
Illuminated keyboard

Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

By Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review | 01.12.2021

Many AIs that appear to understand language and that score better than humans on a common set of comprehension...

Synthetic Biology
Pregnant woman

Private IVF clinics cost tens of thousands and people’s dreams

By Alice Clarke, The Sydney Morning Herald | 01.11.2021

A little under five years ago, my wife and I started going through the IVF process to have a child...

Assisted Reproduction
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Forcibly sterilized for being Afro-German 'children of shame'

By DW Staff, DW | 01.09.2021

Josef Kaiser was 16 years old in 1937 when two Gestapo secret police picked him up and took him to the...

Eugenics
Twin babies

Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows

By Christina Larson, AP | 01.07.2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’re an identical twin who’s always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say...

Genomics
Los Angeles Country USC Medical Center

California needs to repair the damage from its history of systematic sterilizations

By Janelli Vallin, Cal Matters | 01.07.2021

This image is distributed under the CC-BY 2.0 license.

When my family and I would drive past Los Angeles...

Society
University College London

University College London apologises for role in promoting eugenics

By Richard Adams, The Guardian | 01.07.2021

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University College London has expressed “deep regret” for its role...

Eugenics