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

Lieber Adoptieren

By Marcy Darnovsky, The European | 06.26.2013

Hitzige Diskussionen darüber, wie wir unser schnell wachsendes Wissen über Genetik nutzen könnten, begannen lange vor der „Entschlüsselung“ des menschlichen...

Other Countries

A Culture of Consent

By Editorial, Nature | 06.26.2013
Tissue is removed from a woman in hospital. A scientist grows the tissue into a cell line. The cell line...
Biotech & Pharma

How Innocent Man's DNA Was Found at Killing Scene

By Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.26.2013
When a San Jose man charged with murdering a Monte Sereno millionaire was suddenly freed last month, prosecutors acknowledged he...
Biotech & Pharma

First Clinical Trial With Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Grows Closer

By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.26.2013
A Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare panel has accepted a plan to carry out what would be the...
Biotech & Pharma

A New High-Tech, Grass-Roots Effort to Fight Breast Cancer

By Apoorva Mandavilli, Slate | 06.25.2013
By now you’ve probably heard that, thanks to the Supreme Court, no one, and certainly not Myriad Genetics, can patent...
Patents & Other IP

Supreme Court Strikes a Hard Blow to Tribal Sovereignty in Adoption Case

By Aura Bogado, The Nation | 06.25.2013
In a 5 to 4 decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) does not...
Biopolitics

Sterilized Transsexuals Sue Swedish government

By Ann Törnkvist, The Local | 06.24.2013
"Honestly, what the hell is the problem?" says Swedish actress Aleksa Lundberg about the Swedish prime minister's refusal to apologize...
Bioethics

Powerful Gene-Editing Tool Appears to Cause Off-Target Mutations in Human Cells

By Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Codex | 06.23.2013
In the past year a group of synthetic proteins called CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have generated great excitement in the...
Biotech & Pharma