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
Cradles and a globe

Continuing issues and debate concerning transnational commercial surrogacy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

By Yuri Hibino, Sonia Allan, and Damian Adams, BioNews | 11.30.2020

The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several...

Assisted Reproduction

Why we should use mild stimulation in egg donation

By Guido Pennings, BioNews | 11.30.2020

There are two strong ethical reasons to avoid harm to egg donors: a duty to minimise harm and the proportionality...

Assisted Reproduction
Torii Gate, Japan

Court rules Japan's eugenics law unconstitutional but rejects damages claim

By Staff, Japan Times | 11.30.2020

Photo by Tianshu Liu on Unsplash

OSAKA – Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the now-defunct eugenics protection law, under which...

Society
Great Seal of the Navajo Nation

A Geneticist’s Dilemma

By Oscar Schwartz, The Washington Post | 11.23.2020

Image by Bassoonstuff (Bobby C. Hawkins),
CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear and icy morning in...

Genomics
Violent protest

Facial recognition used to identify Lafayette Square protester accused of assault

By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...

Civil Society

All Your Genes Are Belong To Us

By Karen Duffin and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, NPR | 11.20.2020

TRANSCRIPT:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER, BYLINE: This is PLANET MONEY from NPR.

KAREN DUFFIN, HOST: 

For four decades, Chris Hansen worked as...

Policies
Group hugging

What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?

By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

"free 'group' hugs" by j3ssl33 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...

Civil Society

Prince George’s will use DNA registries to solve cold cases through new DOJ grant

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...

Policies