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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...

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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...

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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

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

By Miguel Sena-Esteves, The Conversation | 02.14.2022

Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development.

Tay-Sachs is a...

Stem Cells

‘There’s no amount of money that can take away how I felt’: California pays reparations to survivors of state-sanctioned sterilizations

By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.11.2022

It’s been almost 20 years since a botched surgery while she was incarcerated, but Gabby Solano still mourns the bleak...

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Wrestling with the Legacy of Eugenics

By Jennifer Rainey Marquez, Georgia State University Research Magazine | 02.08.2022

A century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that legal scholars generally consider to be among the...

U.S. States

More than half the country has laws that allow forced sterilizations: new report

By Shirin Ali, The Hill | 02.07.2022

A new report is highlighting forced sterilization laws across the U.S. and how the practice specifically affects disabled people, taking away...

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Top White House scientist resigns after review finds he demeaned staff

By Tyler Pager, The Washington Post | 02.07.2022

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Eric Lander, President Biden’s top science...

Genomics

Disabled activist speaks out about feeling ‘disposable’ during pandemic

By Rachel Scheier, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.05.2022

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In early January, one of the country’s top public health officials...

Media Coverage

With CRISPR gene editing, unique treatments begin to take off for rare diseases

By Meeri Kim, The Washington Post | 02.05.2022

Paddy Doherty remembers his father as a proud, hard-working family man who stayed physically fit for most of his life...

Human Genetic Modification

Ideology as Biology

By Mark Borrello and David Sepkoski, The New York Review | 02.05.2022

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The death of renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson in...

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