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

Ronald Fisher Is Not Being ‘Cancelled’, But His Eugenic Advocacy Should Have Consequences

By Eric Michael Johnson, This View of Life | 04.12.2021

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CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons}

While Black Lives Matter protests...

Genomics

The genetic mistakes that could shape our species

By Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future | 04.12.2021

He Jiankui seemed nervous.

At the time, he was an obscure researcher working at the Southern University of Science and Technology...

Human Genetic Modification

AI companies are enabling genocide in China

By Michael Chertoff and N. MacDonnell Ulsch, The Washington Post | 04.12.2021

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licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0}

The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uyghur people...

Other Countries

The Egg Hunt

By Katherine Plumhoff, Teen Vogue | 04.09.2021

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licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0}

The first advertisement was slid under the door of...

Assisted Reproduction

Researchers call for greater awareness of unintended consequences of CRISPR gene editing

By The Francis Crick Institute, Press Release | 04.09.2021

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can lead to unintended mutations at the targeted...

Genetic Selection

We Have “Gifted” Enough: Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Precision Medicine

By Krystal S. Tsosie, Joseph M. Yracheta, Jessica A. Kolopenuk, and Janis Geary, The American Journal of Bioethics | 04.07.2021

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In “Obligations of the ‘Gift’: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Precision Medicine,” Lee (2021...

Society

She Gave Birth To Her Own Children, Then A Michigan Judge Ruled Her To Be A Surrogate

By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law [cites CGS] | 04.07.2021

A lot of surprising things happen when the use of assisted reproductive technology slams up against outdated family law doctrines...

U.S. States

Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race

By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 04.06.2021

Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a disastrous podcast — whose host...

Bioethics