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

A new age of genetic screening is coming — and we don’t have any rules for it

By Dalton Conley, The Washington Post | 06.14.2021

After the coronavirus baby bust is over and fertility clinics are booming again, increasing numbers of new parents will bring...

Genetic Selection

Detectives Just Used DNA To Solve A 1956 Double Homicide. They May Have Made History

By Sharon Pruitt-Young, NPR | 06.12.2021

It was only three days into 1956 when three boys from Montana, out for a hike on a normal January...

Genomics

Five fertility clinic patients awarded $15m after failure of freezing tank

By Edward Helmore, The Guardian | 06.12.2021

Five patients of a California fertility center have been awarded a total of $15m after a freezing tank failed, rendering...

U.S. Federal

Jury awards $15 million in landmark case over embryos, eggs destroyed in fertility clinic tank failure

By Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post | 06.11.2021

The devastating news landed in the inboxes of the fertility clinic patients early one morning in March 2018.

A tank...

U.S. Federal

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, here's what you need to know

By Annabelle Spranklen, Glamour | 06.10.2021

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, says regulator

Fertility clinics have been warned that they...

Policies

Are gene-editing technologies traditional? Not if they are linked to intellectual rights

By Kathleen Garnett, A Bigger Conversation | 06.09.2021

As we await the report on the UK government’s public consultation on ‘The Regulation of Genetic Technologies’ it is a...

Synthetic Biology

20 years after the human genome was first sequenced, dangerous gene myths abound

By Philip Ball, The Guardian | 06.09.2021

Twenty years ago, the science journal Nature published the first draft of the human genome: the sequence of chemical “letters”...

Society

a scientist doing lab research in a sterile environment

Expanding Biolab Complex in Berkeley Has Residents Worried

By Sharon Lerner, Lee Fang, The Intercept [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.09.2021

The Bayer Corporation has made it clear that the creation of a biological research facility on its waterfront property in Berkeley, California, will...

Bioethics