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

Pioneering Icelandic Genetics Company Denied Approval for Data-Mining Plan

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 06.20.2013
deCODE Genetics, the company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has...
Other Countries

U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 06.20.2013
The Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes a claim about the absence...
U.S. Federal

Should Women Make a Profit on Donating Their Eggs For Research?

By Larry Mantle, KPCC | 06.20.2013

[To listen to the full radio segment, go here]

The amount of money a woman can receive for donating...

Bioethics

'More Rights, More Inclusion, Better Country': Argentina Approves IVF for All

By Alex Stern, The Huffington Post | 06.20.2013
This post was co-authored with Gamal Serour, M.D.

Earlier this month Argentina joined the list of countries that subsidize in...
Bioethics

New Study Tracks Emotional Health of 'Surrogate Kids'

By Linda Carroll, Today | 06.19.2013
Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered...
Civil Society

Japan to Relax Ban on Chimeric Embryo Experiments

By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.19.2013
TOKYO— A scientist pioneering research toward generating human organs in pigs has cleared one hurdle in gaining approval to continue...
Stem Cells

California Bill Poised to Lift Restrictions on Egg Donation

By Charlotte Schubert, Nature | 06.18.2013
California is set to pass a bill that would allow payments over and above 'direct expenses' to be made to...
Biopolitics

Myriad Ruling Causes Confusion

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.18.2013
There was a party waiting for Elizabeth Chao when she arrived for work last week at Ambry Genetics, a medical-diagnostics...
Biopolitics