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

An Ethics for the Future of Genetic Testing

By Sara Hendren, The Atlantic | 12.30.2013
The available prenatal testing technologies for expectant parents are constantly changing in dramatic and subtle ways, and 2013 saw its...
Biotech & Pharma

New Finding Has Major Implications for Genetic Testing as Researchers Learn that Greater Numbers of Humans Have Multiple Personal Genomes

By Pamela Scherer, Dark Daily | 12.30.2013
Here is a human genome curve ball for pathologists and clinical laboratory scientists engaged in genetic testing in their medical...
Genomics

The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor

By Michael B. Katz, Social Work and Society International Online Journal | 12.24.2013
. . . if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our...
Bioethics

CRISPRs Enlisted to Study Mutations Across an Entire Mammalian Genome

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.24.2013

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have developed a technique to create a comprehensive library of mutations across all...

Animal Biotechnologies

Only High-Risk Women Need Breast Cancer Gene Test: Experts

By Dennis Thompson, US News | 12.23.2013
Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk...
Biotech & Pharma

Doctors' Group Sounds Warning on Freezing Eggs to Buy Time on Your Biological Clock

By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, NBC News | 12.23.2013
Thinking about freezing your eggs to buy yourself a few more baby-making years? Not so fast, says the American College...
Public Opinion

Screening Newborns For Disease Can Leave Families In Limbo

By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 12.23.2013
For Matthew and Brianne Wojtesta, it all started about a week after the birth of their daughter Vera. Matthew was...
Bioethics

Top Science Longreads of 2013

By Ed Yong, National Geographic | 12.23.2013
I’m really optimistic about the future for long, deep, rich science reporting. There are more places that are publishing it...
Global Governance