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

Payouts to NC Eugenics Victims Could be Modest

By Michael Biesecker, Associated Press | 07.22.2013
RALEIGH, N.C. - A proposed budget agreement sets aside $10 million for one-time payments to North Carolina's forced sterilization victims...
Bioethics

'Big Leap' Towards Curing Blindness in Stem Cell Study

By BBC, BBC News | 07.21.2013

The prospect of reversing blindness has made a significant leap, according to scientists in the UK.

An animal study in...

Biotech & Pharma

In Search of Fair Babies, Indians Chase Caucasian Donors for IVF

By Shobita Dhar, The Times of India | 07.21.2013
Mayuri Singhal, 36, married into a fair-skinned family. She herself is what is often described in matrimonial columns as 'wheatish'...
Genetic Selection

Rising Use of DNA to Nab Low-Level Criminals

By Ben Finley, Inquirer | 07.20.2013
Early on Nov. 30, 2011, someone threw a rock through a Bristol Township gas station window and hopped inside.

The...
Biotech & Pharma

Genetic Screening: Every Newborn a Patient

By Stefan Timmermans, Los Angeles Times | 07.19.2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of routine newborn screening in the United States. Since 1963, tens of millions of...
Bioethics

World’s First Human Stem Cell Clinical Trial Approved by Japanese Government

By Ida Torres, Japan Daily Press | 07.19.2013
The Japanese government finally gave its approval for the world’s first clinical trials using stem cells that will be harvested...
Biotech & Pharma

Nest Egg

By Teresa Chin, Hyphen Magazine | 07.19.2013
The ad wasn’t exactly subtle: “Genius Asian Egg Donor Needed — Above Average Compensation.” The author of the ad, which...
Arts & Culture

Stem Cells Reprogrammed Using Chemicals Alone

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.18.2013
Scientists have demonstrated a new way to reprogram adult tissue to become cells as versatile as embryonic stem cells —...
Stem Cells