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

Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang

By Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker | 04.05.2021

I. HOME

When Anar Sabit was in her twenties and living in Vancouver, she liked to tell her friends that...

Eugenics

Harbingers of Things to Come in Gene Therapy

By Josh P. Roberts, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 04.02.2021

^{Photo by CDC on Unsplash}

It is one thing to anticipate what gene therapy will look like in 5 years...

Human Genetic Modification

What Is It to Be Human Anymore?

By Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy | 04.02.2021

This book is not for the faint of mind. Walter Isaacson is a great storyteller who has devoted his justly...

Society

Reparations for CA forced sterilization survivors: Support AB 1007

By Aminah Elster, The Daily Californian | 04.02.2021

Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on...

Civil Society

“Small” changes made with gene editing cause severe deformities in plants

By GMWatch | 04.01.2021

^{Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash}

Gene editing causes drastic unwanted effects in gene-edited plants including severe deformities, a new...

Genetic Selection

Official apology for eugenics program moves ahead in Vermont Legislature

By Ethan Bakuli, Burlington Free Press | 04.01.2021

^{Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash}

An apology letter intended to acknowledge Vermont's role in a program that sought to...

U.S. States

FDA approves CRISPR gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease

By Catherine Hsu, The Daily Californian | 04.01.2021

CRISPR genome editing technology, which was developed at UC Berkeley, has been approved for clinical trials to correct gene mutations...

Genetic Selection

UC launches gene therapy trial to transform the treatment of sickle cell disease

By Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News | 03.31.2021

^{"Sickle cell disease (SCD)" by National Institutes

of Health (NIH)}^{is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0}

A team of University...

Human Genetic Modification