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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...

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...

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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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Illustration of a neanderthal skull.

Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

By Jon Cohen, Science | 06.20.2018

Until now, researchers wanting to understand the Neanderthal brain and how it differed from our own had to study a...

Technologies
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Swelling, bleeding and even death – women who donate their eggs face many medical risks

By Priyanka Vora, Scroll.in | 06.20.2018

Last year, shortly after she had donated her eggs for the eighth time since 2009, Shabana Memon* resolved never to...

Assisted Reproduction
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Behind the Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics and White Supremacy

By Ian MacDougall, ProPublica | 06.19.2018

Amid a bipartisan backlash, President Trump has tried repeatedly to shift blame to Democrats for his own administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration...

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‘No other way to earn money’: Why women from poor families become egg donors for infertile couples

By Priyanka Vora, Scroll.in | 06.19.2018

In March, Mumbai resident Shaheeda Khan*, 26, spent 20 days at a fertility clinic in Kerala, where doctors gave her...

Assisted Reproduction
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Report For Defense Department Ranks Top Threats From 'Synthetic Biology'

By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 06.19.2018

New genetic tools are making it easier and cheaper to engineer viruses and bacteria, and a report commissioned by the...

Synthetic Biology
A pregnant woman in a blue dress holds her stomach and gazes at the camera.

How IVF became a licence to print money

By Fay Schopen, The Guardian | 06.18.2018

I don’t consider myself to be lucky. I have never won the lottery, or even found a fiver in an...

Assisted Reproduction
A gloved hand inserts a pipette of clear liquid into a test tube.

Curious About Your Ancestry? Submit a DNA Swab, and a Big Grain of Salt

By Maud Newton, The New York Times | 06.18.2018

By now, millions of us have taken ancestry tests. We’ve spit into tubes and allowed our genetic information to be...

Technologies
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Couple takes legal action against Toronto fertility clinic over damaged eggs, embryos

By CTVNews.ca Staff, CTV News | 06.18.2018

An Ontario couple has filed notice of legal action against a Toronto fertility clinic after an alleged storage tank malfunction...

Assisted Reproduction