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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...

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

Biden Chooses Robert Califf to Lead F.D.A., Despite Drug Industry Ties

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Kaplan, The New York Times | 11.12.2021

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Friday that he would nominate Dr. Robert M. Califf, a former commissioner of the...

U.S. Federal

A Vision for the Future of Science Philanthropy

By Evan S. Michelson and Adam F. Falk, Issues in Science and Technology | 11.09.2021

Although we can envision many ways that the scientific enterprise might evolve in the future, an often-overlooked component will surely...

Society

Q&A: Bioethicist Leigh Turner on the worrisome boom in unregulated stem cell clinics

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.08.2021

In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration put the emerging stem cell cottage industry on notice. At the time...

Policies

‘Nightmare’ IVF mix-up leaves L.A. couple giving birth to other family’s baby

By Hayley Smith, The Los Angeles Times | 11.08.2021

When Daphna Cardinale gave birth to her second daughter in September 2019, she and her husband, Alexander, were immediately puzzled...

U.S. States

brown eggs in a basket with a pink piggy bank

I sold my eggs for an Ivy League education – but was it worth it?

By Ellie Houghtaling, The Guardian | 11.07.2021

My eyes flutter open. I’m surrounded by four nurses holding me upside down. They shake me back and forth, urging...

Bioethics

All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 11.04.2021

A few months ago, on the morning 23andMe Holding Co. was about to go public, Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki...

Society

Becoming Without: Making Transgenic Mosquitoes and Disease Control in Brazil

By Luísa Reis-Castro, Duke University Press | 11.01.2021

The First Bite

At the end of a day of fieldwork in Juazeiro, a city in Northeast Brazil, I sat...

Animal Biotechnologies

Blue Instagram advertisement for Modern Fertility, reading "Want kids one day?"

Hounded by fertility ads on Instagram? Don't let them stress you out.

By Rachel Kraus, Mashable | 10.31.2021

Photo: screenshot from Instagram

On Instagram, I scroll past a blonde toddler's second birthday, a senior dog that's up for...

Society