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

Philippines approves GMO golden rice for commercial production

By Staff, GMWatch | 07.23.2021

The Philippines has approved GMO golden rice for commercial production. This is in spite of the fact that no independent...

Society

Czech Republic: Hard won justice for women survivors of unlawful sterilization

By Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International | 07.22.2021

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The Czech Senate today finally voted to compensate thousands...

Eugenics

Woman protesting with a sign that says "Listen to the Science!" hanging on her backpack

For Good Science, You Need Engaged Citizens

By Gregory E. Kaebnick, Michael K. Gusmano , Scientific American | 07.22.2021

^{Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash}

The White House has rehired a climate scientist who was forced out by the...

Society

21st Century Olympic Doping

By Robin Donovan, NEO.LIFE | 07.22.2021

^{Photo by Serena Repice Lentini on Unsplash}

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finally set to kick off this week...

Society

In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 07.21.2021

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When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the...

Animal Biotechnologies

California Approves Reparations for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

By Mina Kim, KQED Forum | 07.21.2021

In the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other...

Eugenics

Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know | 07.21.2021

Next week in Rome, world leaders will gather to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the...

Genomics

Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

By Erin McCormick, The Guardian | 07.19.2021

It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she...

Eugenics