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

Stem Cell Treatments Overtake Science

By Laura Beil, The New York Times | 09.09.2013
TIJUANA, Mexico — Maggie Alejos arrived here in June from St. Anne, Ill., with her husband, her daughter and a...
Bioethics

The Campaign Against Sex-Selective Abortion is a Cynical Effort to Take Choice Away from Pregnant Women

By Sarah Ditum, NewStatesman | 09.09.2013
What did Dr Prabha Sivaraman do wrong? She said this: “I don’t ask questions. You want a termination, you want...
Biopolitics

David Langwallner: DNA Database is Welcome but it Will Need Safeguards

By David Langwallner, Independent.ie | 09.09.2013
The Irish Innocence Project welcomes the new DNA database bill, last heard of in 2010. In the US and UK...
Bioethics

The Right to Genetic Ignorance

By Editorial, New Scientist | 09.06.2013
The age of genomic medicine is dawning. Whole-genome sequencing is starting to transform the diagnosis of rare inherited diseases, and...
Genomics

Pro-Choice Feminists Should be More Appalled than Anyone by the Sex-Selection Abortion Story

By Tom Chivers, The Telegraph | 09.06.2013
Of all the culture-war issues, the endless battles over gay marriage and immigration and so on that divide liberal Left...
Biopolitics

Heart Gene Therapy Trial Begins

By Fergus Walsh, BBC News | 09.05.2013
It is 18 months since Carol Gedda suffered a massive heart attack. It left her with just 20% of her...
Human Genetic Modification

Scientists to Sequence Genomes of Hundreds of Newborns

By Erika Check, Nature | 09.04.2013
Hundreds of US babies will be pioneers in genomic medicine through a US$25-million programme  to sequence their genomes soon after...
Bioethics

Gender Abortions: Criminal Charges Not in 'Public Interest' Says CPS

By John Bingham, and Claire Newell, The Telegraph | 09.04.2013
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was accused of failing to uphold the law after it ruled that it would not...
Biopolitics