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

Mice Birthed From Unfertilized Eggs for the First Time

By Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine | 03.14.2022

A team of researchers have successfully raised a mouse into adulthood that was produced from a single unfertilized egg.

This...

Animal Biotechnologies

In a Kyiv Basement, 19 Surrogate Babies Are Trapped by War but Kept Alive by Nannies

By Andrew E. Kramer and Maria Varenikova, The New York Times | 03.12.2022

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Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim...

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California stem cell clinic to pay out $3.65M settlement to former patients for ineffective treatments

By Paul Schloesser, Endpoints News | 03.11.2022

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Four years after the FDA admonished stem cell clinic StemGenex for making dubious claims...

Stem Cells

Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible

By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.09.2022

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An extinct rat that once lived on an...

Animal Biotechnologies

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

By Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press | 03.09.2022

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The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two...

Animal Biotechnologies

Could drugs prevent Alzheimer’s? These trials aim to find out

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.09.2022

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Every two weeks, a nurse visits 43-year-old...

Genomics

Major CRISPR patent decision won’t end tangled dispute

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 03.09.2022

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A long-running dispute between two groups that...

Policies

Bias and Inaccuracy in Marketing Noninvasive Prenatal Tests

By Editors, The Hastings Center | 03.08.2022

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Bias and inaccuracy are pervasive in the marketing of noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs), concludes an...

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