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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...

U.S. States

Heritable human genome editing: the National Academies/Royal Society report

By Peter Mills, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 09.08.2020

The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the...

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Probe Finds Orig3n Covid Test Put Nursing-Home Patients at Risk

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 09.08.2020

Poor laboratory practices at a Boston company that performed Covid-19 tests for dozens of nursing homes in Massachusetts put patients...

Society

$5.5 Billion California Stem Cell Campaign Intensifies, Voting Begins in One Month

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Project | 09.08.2020

California's 21 million voters soon will be receiving mail that tells them a $5.5 billion stem cell ballot measure is...

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Weapons for when bigotry claims science as its ally

By Alondra Nelson, Nature | 09.07.2020

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (or Don’t) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford, The...

Senegal's quiet COVID success: Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks

By Deirdre Shesgreen, USA Today | 09.06.2020

COVID-19 test results come back within 24 hours – or even faster. Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists...

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The U.S. must do some heavy lifting to prepare for heritable genome editing

By Josephine Johston, STAT | 09.04.2020

Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an international commission this week on...

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Looking Back At The History Of Forced Sterilisation In India And Why It Concerns Us Even Today

By Zoon, Feminism In India | 09.04.2020

Earlier this year, shocking reports out of Madhya Pradesh highlighted the history of forced sterilisation in India. The state government...

The “staged rollout” of gene-modified babies could start with sickle-cell disease

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.03.2020

In a high-level report precipitated by the birth of CRISPR babies in China in 2018, scientists say the technology’s next...

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