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

The Xinjiang Data Police

By Darren Byler, Noema | 10.08.2020

Preparing For War

Baimurat saw the advertisement for the new job sometime around December 2016. He had come back to...

Society

The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence

By John P. Jackson, Jr., Andrew S. Winston, Review of General Psychology | 10.07.2020

Recent discussions have revived old claims that hereditarian research on race differences in intelligence has been subject to a long...

Perspectives

How Trump Exemplifies Our Ableist Culture

By Steven W. Thrasher, Scientific American | 10.07.2020

It was a grotesque sight: the president of the United States preening from the White House balcony, his mask pulled...

Civil Society

The Promise and the Reality of Gene Editing

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 10.07.2020

In July 2019, MIT Technology Review took a break from its usual beats, such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology, to...

Human Genetic Modification

Scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for 'genetic scissors'

By Linda Geddes, The Guardian | 10.07.2020

Two scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry for developing the genetic scissors used in gene editing...

Human Genetic Modification

CRISPR’s Adaptation to Genome Editing Earns Chemistry Nobel

By Amanda Heidt, The Scientist | 10.07.2020

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier...

Human Genetic Modification

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to two women who developed CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing tool

By Ben Guarino, Washington Post | 10.07.2020

A pair of scientists — Jennifer A. Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California at Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier...

Human Genetic Modification

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing

By Katherine J. Wu, Carl Zimmer and Elian Peltier, New York Times | 10.07.2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their 2012...

Human Genetic Modification