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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 10.17.2025

Before dawn on a March morning, Doug Whitney walked into a medical center 2,000 miles from home, about to transform...

Genomics

Who Gets to Procreate and Parent? A Black Feminist Critique of the Pronatalist Agenda

By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

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The race to create the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

By Julia Black, MIT Technology Review | 10.16.2025

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges...

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Trump moves to push employers on IVF coverage and lower fertility drug costs

By Carter Sherman, The Guardian | 10.16.2025

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Exposure to any germs could've killed her. 11 years later, she's living a normal life thanks to a gene therapy treatment.

By Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News | 10.15.2025

Two months after she was born, Eliana Nachem got a cough that wouldn’t go away. Three weeks later, she also...

Genomics

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

By Lizzy Lawrence, Stat News | 10.14.2025

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Time to end self-regulation of the Australian fertility industry

By Karin Hammarberg and Catherine Mills, BioNews | 10.13.2025

The Australian fertility industry has been rocked by several recent cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups. With a lack of...

Policies

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Will it be the Wild West for designer babies?

By Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News | 10.10.2025

We Texans like to do things our way — leave some hide on the fence rather than stay corralled, as...

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