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

False Labor

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...

Assisted Reproduction

ICE is deporting women at Irwin amid criminal investigation into Georgia doctor

By Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times | 11.18.2020

Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...

U.S. Federal

The Last Children of Down Syndrome

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.18.2020

^{Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash}

Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a...

Genetic Selection

Resisting the rise of facial recognition

By Antoaneta Roussi, Nature | 11.18.2020

^{Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash}

In Belgrade’s Republic Square, dome-shaped cameras hang prominently on wall fixtures, silently scanning people...

Policies

Marie Stopes UK Finally Changes Name To Cut Ties With Eugenicist

By Rachel Moss, HuffPost | 11.17.2020

^{Constructive Birth Control Poster, from the Wellcome Library via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0}

The UK’s largest abortion provider...

Abortion provider changes name over Marie Stopes eugenics link

By News, BBC | 11.17.2020

^{Dr. Marie Stopes at the time of her marriage to Mr. H.V. Roe, 1918 (cropped). From the Wellcome Library,...}

Society

California’s vote to revive controversial stem-cell institute sparks debate

By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 11.16.2020

Voters in California have approved US$5.5 billion in funding for stem-cell and other medical research, granting a lifeline to a...

Stem Cells

The Bioeconomics of Covid-19

By Judith Levine, n+1 | 11.13.2020

^{Back of the 50 centime emergency note issued in 1916 by the Merksplas Local Board of the National Assistance and...}

Bioethics