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

The Burden of Enforcing GINA: EEOC v. Nestle Illustrates One Challenge in Pursuing Genetic Discrimination Claims

By Jennifer K. Wagner and Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 06.20.2012

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) is a federal law making it illegal for insurers and employers to...

Genomics

Payments for Victims of Eugenics Are Shelved

By Kim Severson, The New York Times | 06.20.2012

North Carolina’s novel effort to compensate people who were sterilized under a widespread and decades-long eugenics program that stretched into...

Eugenics

Informed Consent: A Broken Contract

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 06.20.2012

Late in May, the direct-to-consumer gene-testing company 23andMe proudly announced the impending award of its first patent. The firm's research...

Genomics

The Burden of Enforcing GINA: EEOC v. Nestle Illustrates One Challenge in Pursuing Genetic Discrimination Claims

By Jennifer K. Wagner and Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 06.20.2012

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) is a federal law making it illegal for insurers and employers to...

Genomics

Baby Contest: Couples Compete for Free IVF — Is This Exploitation or Generosity?

By Bonnie Rochman, TIME Healthland | 06.19.2012

One winner, Melissa Costa-Lac, had endured three failed adoptions, five miscarriages and the stillbirth of a full-term baby boy...

Media Coverage

Baby Contest: Couples Compete for Free IVF — Is This Exploitation or Generosity?

By Bonnie Rochman, TIME Healthland | 06.19.2012

One winner, Melissa Costa-Lac, had endured three failed adoptions, five miscarriages and the stillbirth of a full-term baby boy...

Media Coverage

Policy Group’s Study Shows At Least 38 Wrongful Convictions Likely in Old Virginia Cases

By Associated Press, The Washington Post | 06.18.2012

New DNA testing in hundreds of old Virginia homicide and sexual assault cases supports the exoneration of at least 38...

U.S. States

Policy Group’s Study Shows At Least 38 Wrongful Convictions Likely in Old Virginia Cases

By Associated Press, The Washington Post | 06.18.2012

New DNA testing in hundreds of old Virginia homicide and sexual assault cases supports the exoneration of at least 38...

U.S. States