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

Placque-ridden neurons in a brain affected by Alzheimer's

The most common Alzheimer’s risk gene may also protect against memory loss

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 10.07.2021

^{Photo by NIH Image Gallery on Flickr}

A common genetic variant called APOE4 raises a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease...

Genetic Selection

illustration shows a padlock hanging from a DNA helix

Genetic discrimination: The next great health battle likely to wash up on NZ shores

By Chelsea Daniels, NewstalkZB | 10.06.2021

There’s growing concern about genetic discrimination in New Zealand – and the lack of Government intervention in this fast-moving field. ...

Policies

Regulating Assisted Reproduction

By Sandy Hausman, WTVF Radio IQ | 10.06.2021

^{Matylda Sęk | CC-BY-SA-3.0}

The first American test tube baby was born here in Virginia forty years ago, but the...

U.S. States

A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Very Big Business

By Anna Merlan, Vice | 10.06.2021

When desperate parents are looking for medical treatment for their kids, especially their autistic kids, they often do two things...

Stem Cells

Francis Collins, Who Guided N.I.H. Through Covid-19 Crisis, Is Exiting

By Noah Weiland and Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.05.2021

WASHINGTON — Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, holed up in an Airbnb in...

Society

At-home genetic testing for cancer and other disease risk is booming: Should you try it?

By A. Pawlowski, Today | 10.04.2021

Breast Cancer Awareness Month will cause many women to worry about their hereditary risk for developing the disease, especially if...

Society

The ethical landscape(s) of non-invasive prenatal testing in England, France and Germany: findings from a comparative literature review

By Adeline Perrot & Ruth Horn, European Journal of Human Genetics | 10.04.2021

Abstract

Since 2019, England, France and Germany have started offering NIPT as a publicly funded second-tier test for common chromosomal...

Genomics

California state park with ties to racist past will now be called by Indigenous name

By Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times | 10.04.2021

^{Photo by Kirt Edblom on Flickr}

Skip Lowry learned the Indigenous dances of the Yurok people as a child by...

Civil Society