News

These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva samples as well as blood," says Schleede, a geneticist who runs Herasight Inc.'s lab in Morrisville, N.C. "We also...

Genetic Selection

The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th 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. You can read the first part here. The series...

U.S. States

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

U.S. Federal

Natural Election

By Jonathan Basile, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 04.29.2026

WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...

Society

It's Not Just Great Replacement Theory That Influenced the Buffalo Shooter

By Kyle Barr, Gizmodo News | 05.31.2022

The bunk theory of eugenics has come up once again as a talking point in the wake of the devastating...

U.S. Federal

Japanese flag in front of a corporate building

Japan to undergo first U.N. disabilities committee review in August

By The Japan Times, The Japan Times | 05.30.2022

^{Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash}

Japan will undergo a policy review by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of...

Other Countries

Australia Wields a New DNA Tool to Crack Missing-Person Mysteries

By Oscar Schwartz, The New York Times | 05.28.2022

When a man washed up on the shores of Christmas Island in 1942, lifeless and hunched over in a shrapnel-riddled...

Genomics

As DNA Donors’ Secrets Emerge, What Should the Children Know?

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.27.2022

Tyler Sniff took a home DNA test at 32 years old and unexpectedly learned that the man who raised him...

Genomics

Employer fertility benefits have a dramatic and startling expansion amid the Great Resignation, experts say

By Michelle Fox, CNBC | 05.27.2022

Photo by Benjamin Child on Unsplash

As employers try to entice new workers and keep the ones they have, more...

Assisted Reproduction

The Pandora’s Box of Embryo Testing Is Officially Open

By Carey Goldberg, Bloomberg | 05.26.2022

^{Photo by Warren Umoh on Unsplash}

Simone Collins knew she was pregnant the moment she answered the phone. She was...

Assisted Reproduction

the cover of The Genetic Lottery. A book by Kathryn Paige Harden

‘Why Biology Is Not Destiny’: An Exchange

By Kathryn Paige Harden et al., The New York Review | 05.25.2022

In response to:

Why Biology Is Not Destiny from the April 21, 2022 issue

To the Editors:

Marcus Feldman...

Human Genetic Modification

Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy

By Janet D. Stemwedel , The Scientific American | 05.24.2022

^{Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash}

The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened...

Genomics