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

Questions in India Cancer Study Still Lingering

By Bob Ortega, The Republic | 08.31.2013
In early June, an Indian medical researcher traveled to Chicago to report seemingly astounding results from a decadelong study of...
Biotech & Pharma

Scientists Grow Mini Brains From Stem Cells

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 08.29.2013
(CNN) -- We've seen beating heart tissue, windpipes and bladders all grown from stem cells. Now researchers have taken another...
Stem Cells

Police Break Up Public Citizen Press Conference Criticizing HHS for Unethical Study

By Sam Jewler, CitizenVox | 08.28.2013
I’ve been in tense police-protester situations before, but generally in more of a civil disobedience context. It was the last...
Biopolitics

Differences on Display on US Informed Consent Rules

By Meredith Wadman, Nature | 08.28.2013
Was it enough for doctors to tell the parents of extremely premature infants that there was “no additional risk” to...
Biotech & Pharma

What DNA Testing Reveals About India’s Caste System

By Dan Kedmey, Time | 08.27.2013
Kumarasamy Thangaraj traveled 840 miles (1,350 km) off of the eastern coast of India by plane, then ship, then six...
Biotech & Pharma

Amici Submit Brief in Support of Ambry Genetics and Gene by Gene

By Donald Zuhn, Patent Docs | 08.27.2013
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Utah Foundation, Inc., Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), Association for Molecular...
Genomics

African Genes Tracked Back

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.27.2013
The first humans left Africa some 200,000 years ago, dispersing to populate the rest of the world. But this was...
Genomics

New Prenatal Tests Provide More Information, but Link to Problems Isn’t Clear

By Lea Winerman, Washington Post | 08.26.2013
Midway through her pregnancy four years ago, Denise Bratina got some scary news. Doctors told Bratina, then 37, that amniocentesis...
Bioethics