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

Microscope images of HeLa cells colored in green and blue

Family of Henrietta Lacks files suit against biotech company for using famous ‘HeLa’ cells without permission

By Meredith Cohn and Hallie Miller, The Baltimore Sun | 10.04.2021

Family members of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific accusing the company...

Biotech & Pharma

Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women

By Michaela Kathleen Curran, The Conversation | 10.01.2021

^{Photo by Mike Maguire on Flickr}

Britney Spears has been locked in a court battle 13 years in the making...

Media Coverage

Will Sociogenomics Reduce Social Inequality?

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center | 09.30.2021

In her new book, Kathryn Paige Harden is full of hope that insights from genetics will become powerful tools...

Bioethics

The chimaera challenge

By Liam Drew, Nature | 09.29.2021

It’s 2036, and you have kidney failure. Until recently, this condition meant months or years of gruelling dialysis, while you...

Animal Biotechnologies

Don’t Count On Woolly Mammoths To Save The Planet

By Frederick Hewett, WBUR | 09.27.2021

“What we need to fight climate change is woolly mammoths” — said no climate scientist, ever.

But that’s not deterring a hotshot...

Stem Cells

High-profile autism genetics project paused amid backlash

By Katharine Sanderson, Nature | 09.27.2021

A large, UK-based study of genetics and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been suspended, following criticism that it failed to...

Other Countries

Looking at a book with and without glasses

A New Vision

By Ruth Reader, Fast Company | 09.27.2021

On the eighth night of Hanukkah last year, Barry Honig saw light. He could see the shape of the menorah...

Patents & Other IP

The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’

By Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian | 09.25.2021

For 40 years, Catherine Simpson thought she knew who she was: a nurse, a mother of three, a daughter and...

Genomics