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

Disability Studies: A New Normal

By Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, The New York Times | 11.01.2013
THE temporarily able-bodied, or TABs. That’s what disability activists call those who are not physically or mentally impaired. And they...
Human Rights

Designer Babies: Fact or Fiction?

By Franki Webb, IPPro Life Sciences | 10.31.2013
Last month, 23andMe caused controversy when it patented technology that could allow parents to effectively design their own babies.

23andMe...
Assisted Reproduction

Judge Invalidates Patent for a Down Syndrome Test

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.31.2013
A federal judge has invalidated the central patent underlying a noninvasive method of detecting Down syndrome in fetuses without the...
Genetic Selection

No More Tourist Visa for Commissioning Surrogacy in India: Home Ministry

By IBN, IBN Live | 10.30.2013

Foreign nationals intending to visit India for commissioning surrogacy will not be allowed to come on a tourist visa from...

Assisted Reproduction

'Bubble Kid' Success Puts Gene Therapy Back on Track

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.30.2013
MOST parents dream of a 5-week-old baby who sleeps through the night, but Aga Warnell knew something was wrong. Her...
Biotech & Pharma

Root of Maths Genius Sought

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.29.2013
He founded two genetic-sequencing companies and sold them for hundreds of millions of dollars. He helped to sequence the genomes...
Biopolitics

‘Ethical Failure’ Leaves One-Quarter of all Clinical Trials Unpublished

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 10.29.2013
Hundreds of thousands of patients have been exposed to potential harm in clinical trials whose results have yet to be...
Biotech & Pharma

Advocating Eugenics in the UK Department of Education

By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.28.2013

Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Education, recently provoked a flurry of complaints by...

Bioethics