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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...

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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...

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‘Unproven and unethical’: experts warn against genetic embryo tests

By Linda Geddes, The Guardian | 01.25.2022

Experts have warned against the “unproven” and “unethical” use of genetic tests to predict the risk of complex diseases in...

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Disabled People Can Still Be Forcibly Sterilized in Over Half of the US

By Rewire News Group Staff, Rewire News Group | 01.25.2022

A National Women’s Law Center report released today shines a light on the dark reality of modern-day eugenics.

More than...

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On the road to treating mitochondrial disease

By Danielle Gerhard, Drug Discovery News | 01.24.2022

^{"Abnormal Mouse Mitochondria"

by National Institutes of Health (NIH)

is licensed under CC BY 2.0}

Mitochondrial disease, whether...

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A crowd of women holding up white flags and a white banner that reads "MARCH FOR LIFE" in red

White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement

By Moira Donegan, The Guardian | 01.24.2022

^{Photo by Steve Sanchez on Shutterstock}

This weekend’s March for Life rally, the large anti-choice demonstration held annually in Washington...

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Some egg donor agencies advertise $275,000 paychecks on social media — but the rigorous process is a far cry from making a 'quick buck'

By Hannah Towey, Business Insider | 01.23.2022

The complex nature of the egg donation business is baked right into the name. A careful balancing act between...

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A $3bn bet on finding the fountain of youth

By Staff, The Economist | 01.22.2022

Startups come and startups go. But few startups start with $3bn in the bank. Yet that is the fortunate position in...

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Their DNA Hides a Warning, but They Don’t Want to Know What It Says

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 01.21.2022

^{"Biobank" by UiT Norges arktiske universitet

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via flickr}

Marin Konstadt, visiting family in...

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Gloved hand holding a test tube labeled "DNA TEST"

Voluntary workplace genomic testing: wellness benefit or Pandora’s box?

By Kunal Sanghavi, Betty Cohn, Anya E. R. Prince, W. Gregory Feero, Kerry A. Ryan, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Wendy R. Uhlmann, Charles Lee, J. Scott Roberts & Debra J. H. Mathews, npj Genomic Medicine | 01.20.2022

Consumer interest in genetic and genomic testing is growing rapidly, with more than 26 million Americans having purchased direct-to-consumer (DTC)...

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