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

Reported IVF Success Rates can be Misleading: Study

By Genevra Pittman, Reuters | 07.04.2013
Researchers looked at a database maintained by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) and found the proportion of cycles...
Public Opinion

The Rise of a New Eugenics

By Lloyd Lewis and Julie Reiskin, Denver Post | 07.04.2013

Eugenics was a disturbing sociopolitical movement in the early 20th century that promoted reproduction of the "fittest" and limited reproduction...

Genomics

Jeremy Hunt launches genomics body to oversee healthcare revolution

By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 07.04.2013
The health secretary is launching a new government organisation to oversee the creation of a genomic revolution in healthcare that...
Biotech & Pharma

Egg Donation is Made to Look Easy, but Questions and Health Risks Remain

By Ryann Summers, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.03.2013
Recently, a former co-worker and his romantic partner sent me a text message that left me reeling.

It essentially read:...
Bioethics

Expansion Of The Genetic Surveillance State: Taking The Blood Of Babies Born To Mississippi Teens

By Kashmir Hill, Forbes | 07.02.2013
In what sounds like a plot twist from a dystopic-future novel, Mississippi is now requiring hospitals to store the blood...
U.S. States

Paper Raises Hundreds Of Questions About The Integrity Of Stem Cell Research Group

By Larry Husten, Forbes | 07.02.2013
Serious questions have been raised about the integrity and validity of research performed by a well-established German stem cell research...
Bioethics

Facebook Grapples with Rules for Patients Seeking Organ Donors

By Kevin B. O’Reilly, American Medical News | 07.01.2013
Officials at Facebook are exploring how to help patients in need of organ transplants use the social networking service to...
Media Coverage

DOH Mulls Infant Gender-Selection Curbs For Sex Ratio

By Alison Hsiao, Taipei Times | 07.01.2013
In an attempt to curb the practice of gender selection among parents-to-be, the Department of Health (DOH) is mulling imposing...
Bioethics