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

FDA to Hold First Public Hearing on GM Babies

By Rady Ananda, Activist Post | 09.16.2013
Next month, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the...
Bioethics

Don’t Use India’s Missing Girls to Deny Women Reproductive Rights

By Mallika Dutt, RH Reality Check | 09.16.2013
On Tuesday last week, I testified at a hearing of the Congressional Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights...
Other Countries

Recent Surrogacy Disputes in Focus

By Louisa Ghevaert, BioNews | 09.16.2013
Surrogacy law and policy differs considerably between countries. Some jurisdictions ban or restrict the practice of surrogacy, whilst others have...
Global Governance

DNA Double Take

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 09.16.2013
From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our...
Biotech & Pharma

"Me medicine" could undermine public health measures

By Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 09.16.2013
ADVOCATES of personalised medicine claim that healthcare isn't individualised enough.

Backed up by the glamour of new biotechnologies such as...
Biopolitics

UC Davis Stem Cell Researcher Warns Consumers to Beware of Unproven or Dangerous Stem Cell Treatments

By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 09.15.2013
In his day job, UC Davis scientist Paul Knoepfler probes the inner workings of stem cells and cancer cells and...
Biotech & Pharma

DNA and Newborn Screening

By Craig Klugman, Bioethics | 09.15.2013
The National Institutes of Health wants to know the DNA of our babies.  The government is not looking to diagnose...
Biotech & Pharma

Ethical Minefield of Parents in Control

By Neil McMahon, The Sydney Morning Herald | 09.14.2013
You are going to be a parent. Modern science is your guide, IVF your chosen method, the aim being multiple...
Human Genetic Modification