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

After Disasters, DNA Science Is Helpful, But Often Too Pricey

By Christopher Joyce, NPR | 09.13.2013
Human DNA is the ultimate fingerprint. A single hair can contain enough information to determine someone's identity — a feature...
Civil Society

No Point in Testing Controversial Stem Cell Treatment, Italian Panel Says

By Laura Margottini, Science | 09.12.2013
ROME—An expert panel that the Italian government asked to come up with a trial design for a controversial Italian stem...
Biopolitics

Consortium Receives $8M to Investigate Molecular Roots of Extreme Aggression

By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 09.12.2013

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The European Union has approved a project aimed at determining the causes of extreme aggressive...

Bioethics

Designer Babies

By Stephanie Robinson, Blog Talk Radio | 09.12.2013

This week on Roundtable with Stephanie Robinson, Stephanie takes on science, the field of genetics and the current dilemma regarding...

Bioethics

Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

By Miriam Zoll and Pamela Tsigdinos, The New York Times | 09.11.2013
ON Sunday in New York City, a trade show called Fertility Planit will showcase the latest inventions in the world...
Genomics

Stem Cells Created in Living Mice

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 09.11.2013
Researchers have reprogrammed adult mouse cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, without the need for a stay in a...
Biotech & Pharma

Republican Lawmakers Criticize Indian Government for Failing to Stop Sex-Selective Abortions

By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press | 09.10.2013
WASHINGTON - Millions of sex-selective abortions in India have skewed gender ratios, and the origins of the problem can be...
Bioethics

Stem-Cell Banks Enable Wealthy to Free 'Backup Version' of their Adult Selves

By Andrew Cave, The Telegraph | 09.09.2013
Claiming to be a world first, the service has been developed by Scéil, part of Cellectis, a French genome technology...
Stem Cells