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

What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

By Robin Fields, ProPublica | 02.12.2025

Vincent Gaynor remembers, almost to the minute, when he realized his part in birthing the breakthrough gene therapy Zolgensma had...

U.S. Federal

Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

By Gustaf Kilander, The Independent | 02.11.2025

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Eugenics

Easing restrictions: Swiss Federal Council announces a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act

By Alice Margaria and Florina Markwalder, BioNews | 02.10.2025

On 30 January 2025, the Swiss Federal Council announced plans for a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act (RMA)...

Policies

Asilomar Déjà Vu?

By Tina Stevens and Stuart A. Newman, A Bigger Conversation | 02.06.2025

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In June 1971, Robert Pollack, a young researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, phoned...

Human Genetic Modification

The couple who want to make America procreate again

By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

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the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license}

It's a...

Genetic Selection

Egg Donation: A Victory for Reproductive Justice or Another Handmaid’s Tale?

By Chantal Bittner, Bill of Health | 02.04.2025

One of the central topics of the election campaign was undoubtedly abortion—a key issue in the fight for reproductive justice...

Policies

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CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says

By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid, Reuters | 02.03.2025

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers...

Bioethics

Stem cell companies and co-founders lose multi-million dollar lawsuit

By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 02.03.2025

Following a lengthy litigation, the co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America and related companies have been prohibited from...

Policies