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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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5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class

By Kara Newhouse, KQED | 07.29.2024
Civil Society
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Project 2025 Isn’t Just Anti-Abortion. It Attacks Surrogacy, IVF, Contraception.

By Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout | 07.27.2024

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Early childhood educator Sammi Gerken, a married mother...

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J.D. Vance’s Appalachian Graveyard

By Elizabeth Catte, In These Times | 07.25.2024

"JD Vance" by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC by SA 2.0

In May, two months before his selection...

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China: Leaked Plan Reveals Bid To Get Officials To Have More Children

By Chen Zifei, Eurasia Review | 07.24.2024

Photo by Brian Matangelo on Unsplash

A leaked internal draft document from the municipal health authority in the southeastern Chinese...

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The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

By Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge | 07.24.2024

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Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to...

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A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.24.2024

A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging in children and...

Human Genetic Modification
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Real-Life Biotech Firm Petitions Star Trek's Federation on Reddit to Change Galactic Law

By Russ Burlingame, Comicbook | 07.23.2024

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences, a biotech company that's putting together plans to orchestrate the de-extinction for animals like the dodo...

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Disabled Bodies and Enabling The Creation of The Medical Genetics Profession

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.22.2024

Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...

Genomics