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

Race Matters When a Patient Needs a Stem Cell or Marrow Transplant

By Arthur Allen, Washington Post | 08.05.2013
If you become ill with a blood cancer or other disease that requires a stem cell transplant, here’s an uncomfortable...
Biotech & Pharma

A Lab-Grown Burger Gets a Taste Test

By Henry Fountain, The New York Times | 08.05.2013
A hamburger made from cow muscle grown in a laboratory was fried, served and eaten in London on Monday in...
Stem Cells

Talent Or Skill?: Honing In On The Elusive 'Sports Gene'

By David Epstein, NPR News | 08.05.2013
We've all had the experience of watching a great athletic performance — from gymnast Mary Lou Retton defying gravity to...
Genomics

Would you Edit your Genes?

By Jim Kozubek, The Boston Globe | 08.03.2013
By July, the swelter of summer was upon us. I felt locked into the crucible of Boston, so I headed...
Bioethics

Kickstarter Bans Project Creators from Giving Away Genetically-Modified Organisms

By Duncan Geere, The Verge | 08.02.2013
Kickstarter is clamping down on genetically-modified organisms following the success of a project to genetically engineer glowing plants for use...
Biotech & Pharma

The Biggest Threat to the Genomic Revolution? Spying Scandals

By Gillian Tett, Financial Times | 07.31.2013
There are not many areas of the economy where costs are one-millionth of what they were a decade ago. Biomedical...
Bioethics

The Fallibility of DNA

By Michael Risher, The New York Times | 07.31.2013
Re “High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics,” by Osagie K. Obasogie (Op-Ed, July 25):

The myth of DNA infallibility has another...
U.S. States

Man Pleads Guilty in Stem Cell Scheme

By Mike Glenn, The Houston Chronicle | 07.31.2013
Mike Martin needed a medical miracle.

Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the Houston man...
Biotech & Pharma