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

Forensic DNA breaks new ground for MMIP cold cases

By Mary Annette Pember, ICT News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 04.18.2025

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo.

In...

Genomics

“NatalCon” and the Contradictions of the Pronatalist Right

By Daniel Colligan, Jacobin | 04.18.2025

^{From the Natalism website}

Last month’s gathering of pronatalists in Austin, Texas, revealed a right-wing milieu riven by internal contradictions...

Bioethics

DREDF Denounces RFK Jr.’s Comments on Autism as Hateful, Harmful and Uninformed

By Staff, DREDF | 04.17.2025

^{"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0}

U.S. Department of Health...

Society

Pronatalism Isn’t a Solution, It’s a Problem.

By Sarah Jones, Intelligencer | 04.17.2025

^{From the Natalism website}

Elon Musk may not have appeared at the Natal Conference in Austin, Texas, this year, but...

Society

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers

By Dana Mattioli, The Wall Street Journal | 04.15.2025

^{Image "Elon Musk" by Debbie Rowe on Wikimedia Commons

licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0}

Ashley St. Clair wanted to...

U.S. Federal

‘Make Motherhood Great Again’: Pronatalism Finds a Comfortable Home in the Trump Administration

By Shoshanna Ehrlich, Ms. Magazine | 04.15.2025

^{Promotional image from Natalism.org}

A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, Sean Duffy, the newly appointed secretary of the...

U.S. Federal

‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children

By Jon Henley, The Guardian | 04.14.2025

At least 85 sperm donors in the Netherlands have fathered 25 or more children, the national gynaecology and obstetrics organisation...

Other Countries

Australian woman unknowingly gives birth to a stranger’s baby after IVF clinic error

By Charlotte Graham-Mclay, Associated Press | 04.11.2025

A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s embryo from her in...

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