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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...

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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...

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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...

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Donald trump at a campaign rally

Trump’s eugenics obsession: He thinks he has “good German genes,” because he’s a fascist

By Heather Digby Parton, Salon | 09.21.2020

"Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona" by...

Society
A candle-lit memorial for RGB

The forgotten time Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought against forced sterilization

By Ria Tabacco Mar, The Washington Post | 09.19.2020

Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

My mind immediately went to Ruth Bader Ginsburg as I read the breaking news...

Society
An embryonic stem cell

Should California Put $5.5 Billion Into Stem Cell Research? Voters To Decide With Prop. 14.

By Sammy Caiola, CapRadio [cites Center for Genetics and Society] | 09.18.2020

A measure on the November ballot would allow California to issue $5.5 billion in bonds to fund stem cell research...

Policies
Vaccination

Scientists are working on vaccines that spread like a disease. What could possibly go wrong?

By Filippa Lentzos, Guy Reeves, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 09.18.2020

Once a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for public use, officials around the world will face the monumental challenge of vaccinating...

Synthetic Biology
Human egg with cells in the form of a question mark

Why we need a global citizens’ assembly on gene editing

By Nicole Curato and Simon Niemeyer, The Conversation | 09.17.2020

Developments in gene editing are often met with moral panic. Every new announcement raises outrage over the audacity of scientists...

Policies

California Stem Cell Measure Scrutinized in Virus Budget Crunch

By Joyce E. Cutler and Tiffany Stecker, Bloomberg Government | 09.17.2020

California voters will be asked this November to spend big on stem cell research, an expensive proposition that could help...

Policies

Experts Conclude Heritable Human Genome Editing Not Ready for Clinical Applications

By Francis Collins, NIH Director’s Blog | 09.17.2020

We stand at a critical juncture in the history of science. CRISPR and other innovative genome editing systems have given...

Human Genetic Modification
ICE officer

ICE Is the New Face of America’s Legacy of Forced Sterilization

By Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic | 09.17.2020

Earlier this week, multiple human rights organizations filed a complaint on behalf of women detained at an Immigration and Customs...

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