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

Corporate Genetics

By Robert Nussbaum, Technology Review | 08.21.2013
In June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patents on genes were invalid. Yet corporate intellectual-property claims can still harm...
Genomics

Guess What? Racism Isn't Good Science

By Jesse Larner, Huffington Post | 08.21.2013
I had really hoped never to hear anything more from Jason Richwine. It does sometimes happen that a public figure...
Bioethics

As Prenatal Testing For Down Syndrome Increases, So Do Concerns About Counseling

By Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post | 08.20.2013
Devan Weathers was pulling into her office parking lot from a lunch break when she got the phone call from...
Biotech & Pharma

Rich Nations not Collaborating in Genomics for Public Health, Says OECD

By Lynne Taylor, PharmaTimes | 08.19.2013
The development of genomics for public health is being prioritised mainly by low- and middle-income nations, with richer countries not...
Genomics

The Empire Strikes Back

By Jonathan Marks, Anthropomics | 08.19.2013
Some of you older folks may remember the case in which geneticist Therese Markow (then of Arizona State, now of...
Biopolitics

Should Sperm Donors Have Parental Rights?

By Judy Campbell, KQED | 08.19.2013

A bill prompted by a custody dispute involving actor Jason Patric would allow certain sperm donors to seek paternity rights...

Biopolitics

Sex-Selective Abortion Bans: Just Another Right-Wing Ruse

By Katie Mcdonough, Salon | 08.19.2013
In May of this year, Miriam Yeung, the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, joined...
Bioethics

At the Printer, Living Tissue

By Henry Fountain, The New York Times | 08.18.2013
SAN DIEGO — Someday, perhaps, printers will revolutionize the world of medicine, churning out hearts, livers and other organs to...
Biotech & Pharma