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

UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees: ‘Data collection isn't apolitical’

By Katy Fallon, The Guardian | 11.11.2020

Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are...

Global Governance

Egg-freezing has risen in lockdown, but it’s not the cure-all it’s cracked up to be

By Katie Strick and Lucy Holden, Evening Standard | 11.10.2020

Alice Mann wishes she’d known the odds from the start. The marketing consultant was 36, single and heartbroken after the...

Assisted Reproduction

The genes we’re dealt

By Erik Parens, Aeon | 11.10.2020

Over the past decade, economists, sociologists and psychologists have begun collaborating with geneticists to investigate how genomic differences among human...

Society

Proponent of using IQ tests to screen immigrants named to senior NIST post

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 11.09.2020

An advocate for using IQ tests to select who is allowed to legally immigrate to the United States has been...

Genomics

International Reporting Mechanism for Unethical Germline Gene Editing Experiments Is Needed

By G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Yujia Zhu, Roger Sik-Yin Foo, Vicki Xafis, Trends in Biotechnology | 11.04.2020

The 2018 revelation of the birth of the first babies whose DNA had been edited shocked the world and was...

Policies

Men and women in early Americas shared hunting duties equally

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre, NewScientist | 11.04.2020

^{Illustration of Hunters and Glyptodon by Heinrich Harder, 1920, via Wikimedia}

A young woman buried with stone tools including spearheads...

Civil Society

Schools Adopt Face Recognition in the Name of Fighting Covid

By Gregory Barber, Wired | 11.03.2020

IN JUNE, THE school board in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was facing a series of votes on the budget for an...

U.S. States

Racism is baked into patent systems

By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 11.02.2020

The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans Anjali Vats Stanford Univ. Press (2020)

In July...