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

uBiome: Ethical Lapse or Not?

By Judy Stone, Scientific American | 07.25.2013

uBiome’s CEO, Jessica Richman, seems to me to be a great saleswoman who also excels at sounding innocent and playing...

Bioethics

UK Forensic Science Slammed by Inquiry

By Daniel Cressey, Nature | 07.25.2013
UK government failures over forensic science are leading to fragmentation, research gaps and possibly even miscarriages of justice, according to...
Bioethics

The Moral Price of Human Eggs

By S. Lochlann Jain, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.25.2013
Gov. Jerry Brown is considering a crucial bill (AB926) on human egg donation. The bill would enable payment to women...
Biopolitics

High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The New York Times | 07.24.2013

SAN FRANCISCO — WHEN the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside...

Genomics

Stem Cell Lines and Paid-for Eggs: Stem Cell Agency Delays Action on Easing Restrictions

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.24.2013
A key panel of the California stem cell agency today balked at approving a plan to ease restrictions on using...
Biopolitics

Jacksonville Lawsuit Exposes the Hazards of the Unregulated International Egg Donor Trade

By Anne Schindler, First Coast News | 07.23.2013
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In many ways, the US and Canada aren't that different. But there are important distinctions. And one...
Bioethics

Sterilization Abuse in State Prisons: Time to Break With California's Long Eugenic Patterns

By Alex Stern and Tony Platt, The Huffington Post | 07.23.2013
The recent revelation that 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 is another example...
Biopolitics

A Few Notes on the Invisible

By George Estreich, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor | 07.23.2013
I’m just home from the annual National Down Syndrome Congress convention, and even given the fact that Down syndrome lands...
Technologies