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

Public Invasion of Genetic Privacy For UK Royal Family?

By Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 06.17.2013
The Times newspaper has published a front-page story revealing that the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and his brother Prince...
Global Governance

Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.16.2013
Not so long ago, people who provided DNA in the course of research studies were told that their privacy was...
Global Governance

Testimony by Jennifer Schneider, MD to the California Senate Health Committee re AB 926

By Jennifer Schneider, MD | 06.16.2013

My name is Jennifer Schneider. I’m an Internal Medicine physician and the mother of a Stanford student egg donor.  I...

Human Cloning

Real-Life True Blood: Synthetic Blood Is Coming — And So Are a Host of Potential Complications

By Devon Maloney, Wired | 06.14.2013
Season 6 of HBO’s vampire drama True Blood premieres on Sunday night, presumably following up on last year’s cliffhanger where...
Other Countries

Self-Confessed Liar Publishes More Dubious Stem-Cell Work

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 06.14.2013
He’s back.

Last autumn, Hisashi Moriguchi stunned the world of stem-cell science by claiming he had become the first person...
Biotech & Pharma

After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court ruled that human genes could not be patented, several laboratories announced they, too, would...
Genomics

Compensation for Human Eggs Approved by Key California Senate Committee, But Not For CIRM Researchers

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.13.2013
Legislation that would permit women in California to be paid for their eggs for scientific research yesterday cleared a key...
Biopolitics

Single Embryo Transfer Recommended in Most IVF Procedures

By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies Our Blog | 06.13.2013
The process of in vitro fertilization – in which embryos are created outside a woman’s body and then implanted in...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights