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

Giraffes May Be as Socially Complex as Chimps and Elephants

By Cara Giaimo, The New York Times | 08.07.2021

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Giraffes seem above it all. They float over the...

Genomics

They, the people

By Patricia J. Williams, TLS | 08.06.2021

In 1853, Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau published a tract entitled “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races”, in which...

Eugenics

USDA’s actions on gene-edited approvals challenged in court

By Jacqui Fatka, Farm Progress | 08.06.2021

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In May 2020, the previous administration’s USDA issued its...

Policies

She Has Stem Cells in Her Crosshairs

By Elizabeth Preston, NEO.LIFE | 08.05.2021

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In 2017, Agnieszka Czechowicz watched a four-year-old girl sleeping soundly in a California hospital...

Stem Cells

These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race

By Tom Simonite, Wired | 08.05.2021

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Millions of dollars are being spent to develop artificial intelligence...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Women protesting with signs that read "stop abortion bans"

The governor was right to veto a dangerous NC abortion bill

By Rebecca Todd Peters, The Charlotte Observer | 08.04.2021

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The N.C. legislature is soon expected to vote on whether to override or uphold...

U.S. States

How ‘race-norming’ was built into the NFL concussion settlement

By Will Hobson, The Washington Post | 08.02.2021

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CHANDLER, Ariz. — At first glance, Rick Cunningham looks ...

Arts & Culture

The next debate on embryo science

By Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 08.02.2021

A longstanding prohibition against culturing human embryos for more than 14 days is now open for discussion, according to revised...

Stem Cells