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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

Many Rare Mutations May Underpin Diseases

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 05.17.2012

The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems much harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics and...

Biotech & Pharma

Many Rare Mutations May Underpin Diseases

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 05.17.2012

The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems much harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics and...

Biotech & Pharma

Surrogate Mother Dies of Complications

By Times of India, Times of India | 05.17.2012

AHMEDABAD: Premila Vaghela, 30, had opted to become a surrogate mother and deliver child of a US-based couple to supplement...

Assisted Reproduction

NC Bill Supports Compensation for Eugenics Victims

By Martha Wagooner, New Observer | 05.16.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Victims of North Carolina's decades-long forced sterilization program would receive $50,000 each under a bill filed Wednesday...

Racial Justice

NC Bill Supports Compensation for Eugenics Victims

By Martha Wagooner, New Observer | 05.16.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Victims of North Carolina's decades-long forced sterilization program would receive $50,000 each under a bill filed Wednesday...

Racial Justice

Big Promises Backed by Bad Theory

By Eric Hoffman and Stuart Newman, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.15.2012

Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent...

Biotech & Pharma

Big Promises Backed by Bad Theory

By Eric Hoffman and Stuart Newman, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.15.2012

Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent...

Biotech & Pharma

In Choosing a Sperm Donor, a Roll of the Genetic Dice

By Jacqueline Mroz, New York Times | 05.14.2012

Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a...

Assisted Reproduction