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

EPA faces suit over plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes

By Rachel Franzin, The Hill | 06.15.2020

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing a lawsuit over its approval of a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes...

Animal Biotechnologies

The stranded babies of Kyiv and the women who give birth for money

By Oksana Grytsenko, The Guardian | 06.15.2020

Some are crying in their cots; others are being cradled or bottle-fed by nannies. These newborns are not in the...

Assisted Reproduction

Hundreds of MSU professors, GEU call to remove VP of research Stephen Hsu

By Wendy Guzman, The State News | 06.15.2020

The Michigan State University Graduate Employees Union and its coalition partners in the STEM community are calling for MSU to...

Genomics

Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster

By Emily Mullin, OneZero | 06.15.2020

A team of scientists has used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to create genetically modified human embryos in a London lab...

Human Genetic Modification

Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912

For Scientific Institutions, Racial Reconciliation Requires Reparations

By C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American | 06.12.2020

^{Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912 (via wikipedia)}

Amidst protests and conversations on racism following...

Society

A Selective Amnesia – Sterilizing The History Of Genetics

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 06.12.2020

We may be in the midst of a critical historical turning point in social justice. The confluence of the Black...

Genomics

USC removes name of Rufus von KleinSmid, a eugenics leader, from prominent building

By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

With its soaring arches, international flags and globe-topped tower, the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs is one...

Society

The gene delusion

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

In February this year, the Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky was forced to resign when his incendiary comments on race...

Genomics