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

DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 05.14.2012

Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act...

Genomics

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

DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 05.14.2012

Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act...

Genomics

College or Funeral is Mother's Wish Denied on DNA Results

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.13.2012

Camilla Grondahl asked genetics researcher Gholson Lyon a simple, heartbreaking question: Was she carrying a lethal gene that might kill...

Genomics

College or Funeral is Mother's Wish Denied on DNA Results

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.13.2012

Camilla Grondahl asked genetics researcher Gholson Lyon a simple, heartbreaking question: Was she carrying a lethal gene that might kill...

Genomics

A Crime Against Motherhood: Involuntary sterilization was a horrifying exercise in genetic engineering

By Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin, Los Angeles Times | 05.13.2012

My mom's first day of motherhood was one of the happiest of her life. It was also one of the...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

So Eager for Grandchildren, They’re Paying the Egg-Freezing Clinic

By Elissa Gootman, New York Times | 05.13.2012

At the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by freezing...

Assisted Reproduction

A Crime Against Motherhood: Involuntary sterilization was a horrifying exercise in genetic engineering

By Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin, Los Angeles Times | 05.13.2012

My mom's first day of motherhood was one of the happiest of her life. It was also one of the...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights