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

Blue, pink and white transgender flag flying

Trump’s Anti-Trans Memo Opens Door to Escalating State Surveillance

By Christoph Hanssmann, TruthOut | 10.27.2018

The Trump administration’s proposed scheme to redefine sex as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth” is not...

U.S. Federal

Use the patent system to regulate gene editing

By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 10.23.2018

Next month, researchers, policymakers, ethicists and social scientists will meet in Hong Kong for the second International Summit on Human...

Policies

Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics

By Nathaniel Comfort, MIT Technology Review | 10.23.2018

Want to predict aggression? Neuroticism? Risk aversion? Authoritarianism? Academic achievement? This is the latest promise from the burgeoning field of...

Two Native American geneticists interpret Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test

By Krystal Tsosie and Matthew Anderson, The Conversation | 10.22.2018

Dr. Carlos Bustamante, a prominent population geneticist, recently concluded that Senator Elizabeth Warren had “a Native American ancestor.” While geneticists...

Perspectives

Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.

By Laura Hercher, MIT Technology Review | 10.22.2018

At first, Matthew assumed the weakness in his knee was the sort of orthopedic nuisance that happens when you turn...

Assisted Reproduction

White-people-only DNA tests show how unequal science has become

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.18.2018

The DNA testing company Color Genomics says that early next year it will offer customers a new type of gene...

Genomics

DNA Testing Can’t Tell Us Who We Really Are. It Can Tell the Cops.

By Max Read, Intelligencer | 10.17.2018

Do we know anything new about Elizabeth Warren, now that we’ve seen her DNA test results? Besides, I mean...

Genomics

Elizabeth Warren and the Folly of Genetic Ancestry Tests

By Alondra Nelson, The New York Times | 10.17.2018

This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announced that geneticists had analyzed her DNA and proved her longstanding claim that...

Bioethics