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Demographic Fears and Far-Right Fantasies

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.26.2026

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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...

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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

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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...

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Eugenics and the Nihilism of Law-and-Order Politics

By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026

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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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Is AI the End of the World as We Know It?

By Pete Shanks | 09.24.2026
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major focus of news recently, as it should have been, under the appropriately ridiculous...

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Biopolitical Times

Is AI the End of the World as We Know It?

By Pete Shanks | 09.24.2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major focus of news recently, as it should have been, under the appropriately ridiculous...

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Reviews of Two Books Wrestling with Genomics

By Pete Shanks | 08.28.2026

What We Inherit by Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko; and Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden have a great...

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Gene therapy trial characterised by hype and hubris ends in a child's death

By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews, Guest Contributors | 08.25.2026

This is an excerpt of an article originally published on August 1, 2026 at GMWatch.

A six-year-old girl has...

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A New Hope for Gene Editing

By Gary Sernovitz, Bloomberg | 10.21.2026

Three years ago, at the age of 50, I found out I have dangerous genes. So in June, I went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see how they could be fixed. Among my 6 billion base pairs of DNA are two...

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Start-Up Claims to Use A.I.-Created Viruses to Treat a Patient

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 10.20.2026

For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient.

Researchers announced on Tuesday that they had administered the virus, known as a phage, to a patient suffering from a deadly...

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Gene editing is coming for common diseases. Are we ready?

By Noah Fromson, HealthLab | 10.19.2026

Gene therapy is no longer the future of medicine — it’s reality. Treatments that replace, silence or edit genes are already changing clinical care.  

There are more than 6,000 rare genetic disorders but only a fraction currently have treatable targets...

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The dark side of optimizing fertility

By Jonquilyn Hill, Vox | 10.18.2026

We live in an era of endless optimization. Fitness trackers help us measure our lifespan, people are consuming piles of protein in an attempt to be their best selves, and there’s even an urge to maximize our morality. In...

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Reproduction and Family Formation: The State and the Market
Use Gene Editing to Make Better Babies | Debate | Intelligence Squared U.S.
The 'Perfect' Baby?: The Dangers of Gene Editing in Assisted Reproduction