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

Unproven stem cell interventions: A global public health problem requiring global deliberation

By Zubin Master, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, and Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, Stem Cell Reports | 06.08.2021

The unproven stem cell intervention (SCI) industry is a global health problem. Despite efforts of some nations, the industry continues...

Policies
eggs under a microscope

“Emotional choreography” and the cross-border egg trade

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 06.08.2021

I've written a fair amount about egg donation over the years and have interviewed donors who travelled places to do...

Assisted Reproduction
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Human Embryo Research Beyond 14 Days? International Perspectives

By Sheetal Soni and Françoise Baylis, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 06.07.2021

Five  years ago, independent research teams in the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in cultivating human embryos in...

Policies

Genome editing technologies: some clarifications but no revision of the Oviedo Convention

By Council of Europe, Press Statement | 06.04.2021

At its 18th plenary meeting (1-4 June 2021), the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe adopted the following...

Policies
a sequence of DNA base pair letters

A complete human genome sequence is close: how scientists filled in the gaps

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 06.04.2021

When the sequencing of the human genome was announced two decades ago by the Human Genome Project and biotech firm...

Genomics
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Which lives matter in reproductive biomedicine?

By Camisha Russell, Reproductive Biomedicine & Society | 06.02.2021

Abstract

The most recent Black Lives Matter moment provides an important opportunity for consideration of the interlocking social and political...

Assisted Reproduction
A person in a white lab coat pipettes liquid into test tubes

Preparing For The Next Generation of Ethical Challenges Concerning Heritable Human Genome Editing

By Robert Klitzman, Bioethics.net | 06.02.2021

On September 5, 2020, the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, established by the U.S...

Human Genetic Modification
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Newer methods may boost gene therapy’s use for more diseases

By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 06.01.2021

Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he...

Human Genetic Modification