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...

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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

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

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

The Killing Point

By Leigh Cowart, NSFWCorp | 10.16.2013

I first read “Man and Superman”, Malcolm Gladwell’s piece on performance-enhancing drugs, at two in the morning. Unable...

Media Coverage

Epigenetics: How to alter your genes

By Chris Bell, The Telegraph | 10.16.2013

Towards the end of the Second World War, something unprecedented happened in modern Europe: a famine. Operation Market Garden, the...

Biotech & Pharma

Regulators Weigh Benefits of ‘Three-Parent’ Fertilization

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.15.2013

Regulators in the United States are considering whether to permit trials of a controversial assisted-reproduction technique intended to help women...

U.S. Federal

Dominic Cummings may Disagree, but Wealth is Considerably More Heritable than Genes

By Polly Toynbee, The Guardian | 10.14.2013

Sliding into reverse: that's the unwelcome finding of Alan Milburn's social mobility and child poverty commission to be published this...

Bioethics

Inside 23andMe Founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution

By Elizabeth Murphy, Fast Company | 10.14.2013

There's a lot you can do for your child with 99 dollars.

You can purchase 14 gallons of organic milk...

Patents & Other IP

Company Seeks to Make Sperm Banks Safer

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 10.14.2013

CAMBRIDGE — Anne Morriss’s first step toward starting a company to test the DNA of women and their prospective sperm...

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