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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...

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

Improving human beings to make them perform better: Why is transhumanism so harmful?

By Nicolas Le Dévédec, The Conversation | 05.14.2025

The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings so they will perform better. In doing so, they contribute above...

Society

NSF board member resigns, saying Trump’s policies have harmed the agency

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 05.13.2025

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In an unprecedented move, a member...

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Scientific societies call for a moratorium on using CRISPR to create genetically modified children

By Megan Molteni, Stat | 05.13.2025

Leading trade organizations representing the makers of cell and gene therapies are calling for a 10-year international moratorium on the...

U.S. Federal

With No Real Policy, Trump Asks Drugmakers to Lower U.S. Prices

By Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times | 05.12.2025

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Nobel Prize winners convince court to revive CRISPR patent dispute

By Blake Brittain, Reuters | 05.12.2025

The University of California and the University of Vienna on Monday convinced a U.S. appeals court to revive their bid...

Policies

Colossal Bioscience’s attempt to de-extinct the dire wolf is a dangerously deceptive publicity stunt

By David Coltman, Carson Mitchell, Liam Alastair Wayde Carter, and Tommy Galfano, The Conversation | 05.12.2025

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the extinct dire wolf...

Animal Biotechnologies

The GOP’s Resurgence Of Pro-Natalism Looks A Lot Like The Past

By Alanna Vagianos, HuffPost | 05.09.2025

President Donald Trump is reportedly entertaining policy proposals to incentivize American women to have more children. But the proposals don’t...

Other Countries

Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests

By Pepper Stetler, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.08.2025

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