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...

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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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Amid the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples, immigration, sterilization, and other eugenic policies attempted to socially engineer Australia's gene pool.

Mind your genes! The dark legacy of eugenics lives on

By Natasha Miller, ABC [Australia] | 08.08.2016
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From enforced sterilisation to the fledgling foundations of education in Australia, eugenics left a dark stain on the...

Disability Rights

Silicon Valley was going to disrupt capitalism. Now it’s just enhancing it

By Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian | 08.06.2016
Untitled Document The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting...
Genomics

Do Olympians Have Better Genes Than You And Me?

By Christina Farr, Fast Company | 08.06.2016
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Gymnast Simone Biles's signature move: Two backflips in the air, with straight legs, and a blind landing after...

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US government may fund research to combine human cells and animal cells

By Associated Foreign Press, Associated Foreign Press | 08.05.2016

Research that mixes human cells into animal embryos could get US government funds for the first time under a new ...

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The $100,000-Per-Year Pill: How US Health Agencies Choose Pharma Over Patients

By Fran Quigley, Truthout | 08.05.2016
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Don Reichmuth survived prostate cancer once before, back in 2007, so his physician was concerned when tests recently...

Bioethics

The Human Egg Business: More Media Coverage of California Cash-for-Eggs Legislation

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 08.05.2016
Untitled Document A renewed legislative effort in California to pay women for handing over their eggs for research is attracting...
Bioethics

Booming demand, state protections attract commercial surrogate birthing

By Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Bee | 08.05.2016
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Sacramento elementary-school teacher Debi Lawson recently finished a second job. Like teaching, it included prep and recovery time...

Bioethics

The surprisingly small benefit of some very (expensive) Big Ideas

By Joe Gibes, Bioethics @ TIU | 08.05.2016
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Last week, JAMA published online a Viewpoint provocatively titled, “What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research Become...

Genetic Selection