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

Want a girl with blue eyes? Inside California’s VIP IVF industry

By Megan Agnew, The Times | 09.15.2024

Faith Hartley always wanted two girls — a blonde and a redhead. “I thought, I’ll have one that looks like...

Genetic Selection

The Truth About the Right and IVF

By Irin Carmon, New York | 09.14.2024

At Tuesday night’s debate, seemingly stung by Kamala Harris’s assertion that IVF treatments have been curtailed “under Donald Trump’s abortion...

Policies

Japanese flag with blue building in background

Gov’t, forced sterilization victims reach compensation settlement

By Staff, Kyodo News | 09.13.2024

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The Japanese government and people who were forced to undergo sterilization surgeries from the...

Patents & Other IP

Trump sells himself as a ‘leader’ on IVF, angering some Republicans

By Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly , Politico | 09.12.2024

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Policies

Vertex, CRISPR’s Casgevy Highlights Complex Path to Gene Therapy Profitability

By Annalee Armstrong, BioSpace | 09.11.2024

Complex gene therapies are starting to hit the market but all have faced the same reality: a tepid reception from...

Human Genetic Modification

Human embryo models are getting more realistic-raising ethical questions

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.11.2024

Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like...

Assisted Reproduction

Queensland’s crackdown on IVF clinics fuels push for national donor registry

By Andrew Messenger, The Guardian | 09.10.2024

A groundbreaking legislated crackdown on Queensland fertility providers has sparked calls to establish a national register for children conceived with...

Policies

Yale Settles With Patients Who Sued Over Painful Egg Retrievals

By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 09.09.2024

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Yale agreed on Monday to pay dozens of patients who had filed lawsuits claiming...

Society