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

FBI Announces Review of 2,000 Cases Featuring Hair Samples

By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau | 07.18.2013
WASHINGTON — The FBI will review thousands of old cases, including some involving the death penalty, in which hair samples...
Bioethics

Challenges to Biosecurity From Advances in the Life Sciences

By Sergio Bonin, UN Chronicle | 07.18.2013

“Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing...

Global Governance

UK Medical Research Regulators Spared the Axe

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 07.18.2013
The future of the UK regulating bodies for human-embryo and human-tissue research has been safeguarded, as the government’s announcement yesterday...
Biopolitics

Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?

By Kent Sepkowitz, The Daily Beast | 07.18.2013
Las Vegas has long been the philosophic capital of U.S. commerce, a physical (if hallucinator) reminder that luck does indeed...
Public Opinion

Unregulated Surrogacy Industry Worth Over $2bn Thrives Without Legal Framework

By Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India | 07.18.2013
NEW DELHI: With an unregulated surrogacy industry thriving in India, rich couples are preying on domestic helps and housemaids coercing...
Other Countries

Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits Vary in Predictions of Disease Risk

By Medical Xpress, Medical Xpress | 07.17.2013

An in-depth analysis and comparison study conducted by investigators at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health demonstrated variations in predicted...

Genomics

Don’t Market Stem-Cell Products Ahead of Proof

By Paolo Bianco, Nature | 07.17.2013
Translational medicine is said to reflect a need to harness the huge wealth of scientific knowledge in biomedicine. In fact...
Bioethics

Researchers Turn Off Down’s Syndrome Genes

By Beth Mole, Nature | 07.17.2013
The insertion of one gene can muzzle the extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down’s syndrome, according to a...
Genomics