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

How Coronavirus Is Affecting Surrogacy, Foster Care and Adoption

By David Dodge, New York Times | 04.01.2020

Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has upended life for those who are or hope to become...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Settling Some Old Arguments About Ableism

By Andrew Pulrang, Forbes | 03.30.2020

A long-time, low-grade worry for people with disabilities has become a red alert in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic...

Bioethics

Potential Inequities in New Medical Technologies

By Eric B. Kmiec and Jonathan Marron, Scientific American | 03.28.2020

As headline-catching new technologies emerge—like tools to “edit” our DNA—researchers, doctors, patients and the general public are excited about the...

Society

People With Intellectual Disabilities May Be Denied Lifesaving Care Under These Plans as Coronavirus Spreads

By Amy Silverman, Arizona Daily Star | 03.27.2020

Advocates for people with intellectual disabilities are concerned that those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and other such conditions...

Society

Doha Debates turns spotlight on future of genetics

By Anon, Gulf Times [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.27.2020

The question of where the line should be drawn in human gene editing, and if it should be allowed to...

Human Genetic Modification

Surrogacy: new parents stuck in US amid Covid-19 shutdown

By Sirin Kale, The Guardian | 03.26.2020

James Washington, a 37-year-old lawyer originally from Norfolk, UK, was on the US Department of State website last Thursday trying...

Assisted Reproduction

International surrogacy and COVID-19

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 03.24.2020

Joe Durak and Valeria Martinez Viademonte are expecting their second child on April 16. Problem is, their home is in...

What the Pandemic Is Telling Us About Science, Politics, and Values

By Daniel Sarewitz, Slate | 03.24.2020

For the past 30 years, I have tried to make sense of the interactions between science and politics, especially the...

Society