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

Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | 07.31.2013
Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences...
Genomics

Japan to Start Stem-Cell Study on Humans

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.30.2013
On 1 August, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, will start recruiting patients for the...
Biotech & Pharma

Egg Donors Create Support Group for Women and Push for More Safety Data

By Raquel Cool, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.30.2013

I recently decided to retire as an egg donor.

This choice is clearly right for me, and although I speak...

Bioethics

Russian-Speakers who Want to Make Aliya Could Need DNA Test

By Asher Zeiger, The Times of Israel | 07.29.2013

A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testing...

Bioethics

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Blessing? Curse? Both?

By Eleanor J Bader, Truthout | 07.28.2013
The 11-year-old Calabasas, California, business is called Planet Hospital. Billing itself as a "medical tourism" company, its website informs...
Bioethics

Is Eugenics Ever Okay?

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 07.26.2013
A flurry of eugenics-related news over the last couple of weeks demonstrates that we have to stop considering eugenics a...
Genetic Selection

In India, a Rise in Surrogate Births for West

By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post | 07.26.2013

NEW DELHI — When 24-year-old Komal Kapoor handed over the twins she had just borne to a visiting American couple...

Other Countries

Stem Cell Agency Approves Plan for Clinical Trial Network

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 07.26.2013
The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine voted Thursday to adopt a $70-million plan to develop a...
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