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

Five-Minute IVF is Better and Cheaper, Say Experts Scientists

By Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph | 10.17.2013
Scientists said the treatment offered particular hope for older women and could be performed with none of the side-effects associated...
Biotech & Pharma

Decades Later, Condemnation for a Skid Row Cancer Study

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.17.2013
A medical researcher from Columbia University, Dr. Perry Hudson, made the skid row alcoholics in Lower Manhattan an offer: If...
Human Rights

Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.17.2013
A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that the standard language of life no longer applies. Instead, one of...
Biotech & Pharma

More Young Women Serving as Egg Donors, Report Says

By Melissa Dahl, Today | 10.17.2013
More young women than ever are donating their eggs to help other people become parents, according to a new report...
Bioethics

'Where Did I Come From?' Donor Eggs, Sperm and a Surrogate

By Anndee Hochman, The Inquirer | 10.17.2013
The first time Andrew Botwin said "Daddy," his mother gulped.

Was this the moment Shari Botwin had anguished about ever...
Bioethics

The Rise of Gender Selection among Middle Eastern Couples

By Rachel Williamson, Middle East Monitor | 10.17.2013
Sex selection is a dirty phrase in Western countries, but Middle Eastern couples are jumping on fertility technology as changing...
Other Countries

New DNA Test can Catch Elite Cheats

By Corey Allen, The University of British Columbia | 10.17.2013
Researchers develop easier, faster test to spot blood doping

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new...
Bioethics

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction