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

A look into the bioethics of commercialized surrogacy

By Clare Fogarty, The McGill Tribune | 02.16.2016
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On Feb. 6, the McGill Journal of Law and Health held its eighth Annual Colloquium, with this year...

Bioethics

Egg Donation and Surrogacy Scam [Press Release]

By U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 02.16.2016

Allison Layton, who owned a California company called Miracles Egg Donation (Miracles), claimed she was in the business of helping...

Assisted Reproduction

There's No Excuse For Doctors To Treat Patients According To Race

By Amitha Kalaichandran, Huffington Post [Canada] | 02.16.2016
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This past November I had the opportunity take part in TEDMED as a TEDMED Scholar. The week consisted...

Human Rights

NC appeals court rules on eugenics cases

By Anne Blythe, News & Observer | 02.16.2016
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The N.C. Court of Appeals issued rulings Tuesday in a series of cases related to people who were...

Human Rights

The History of Eugenics in Quebec and at McGill

By Hailey MacKinnon, The McGill Tribune | 02.16.2016
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McGill University is known for its cutting-edge scientific research. Many may not know, however, that during the early...

Human Rights

Gene editing: The next frontier in America’s abortion wars

By Sarah Karlin, Politico | 02.16.2016
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Longtime combatants find themselves on the same side when it comes to manipulating the DNA of human embryos...

U.S. States

Is a Surrogate a Mother?

By Michelle Goldberg, Slate | 02.15.2016
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Last year, a 47-year-old California woman named Melissa Cook decided to become a commercial surrogate. Cook is a...

Assisted Reproduction

‘It smells of Big Brother’: Some question legality, effectiveness of Louisiana’s expansive DNA database

By Bryn Stole & Danielle Maddox Kinchen, The New Orleans Advocate | 02.13.2016
Untitled Document A dozen years ago, just after Derrick Todd Lee was arrested and tied to a string of killings...
Bioethics