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

Embryos donated to science blow the whistle on CRISPR

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 06.23.2020

Many people, finding themselves at the end of their reproductive journey, decide to donate their extra embryos "to science." We...

Assisted Reproduction
Sickle cell anemia, showing blood vessel with normal and deformated crescent

A Year In, 1st Patient To Get Gene Editing For Sickle Cell Disease Is Thriving

By Rob Stein , NPR | 06.23.2020

Like millions of other Americans, Victoria Gray has been sheltering at home with her children as the U.S. struggles through...

Human Genetic Modification
Seal of California

$5.5 billion stem cell rescue plan makes November ballot

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly [cites CGS and Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.22.2020

A $5.5 billion stem cell bond measure qualified this afternoon for the November ballot, but the campaign to win voter...

Stem Cells
Stem Cell Research

Stem cell companies sell hope with unproven medicine for COVID-19

By Brent Schrotenboer, USA Today | 06.22.2020

In a message posted on Facebook in early May, a startup company in San Diego tried to sell a big...

Stem Cells
The Mighty Mosquito

Before genetically modified mosquitoes are released, we need a better EPA

By Natalie Kofler and Jennifer Kuzma , Boston Globe | 06.22.2020

While the attention of the American public has rightfully been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, its associated racial disparities, and...

Synthetic Biology
X chromosome against the background of DNA

‘The wondrous map’: how unlocking human DNA changed the course of science

By Robin McKie , The Guardian | 06.21.2020

Twenty years ago this week, an international group of scientists announced it had put together the first genetic blueprint of...

Genomics
University College, London

UCL denames buildings named after eugenicists

By University College London , UCL News | 06.19.2020

The decision was made by UCL’s President & Provost Professor Michael Arthur and ratified by Council - the university’s governing...

Eugenics

China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Equipment

By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 06.17.2020

The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic...

Genetic Selection