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

De-extinction: A Lifeline or Pandora's Box?

By Jamie Rappaport Clark, Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There has been a lot of talk in the scientific community and the media recently about the idea of "de-extinction;"...
Bioethics

The Campaign Kickstarter Shouldn't Be Funding

By L. Jim Thomas, The Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There is less than a day to go before the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com hands hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Biotech & Pharma

Infertility Due to Old Eggs? An Anti-Aging Pioneer Ponders Solutions

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 06.05.2013
One of the many ways in which humans' evolved characteristics clash with a fast-changing post-industrial society can be seen in...
Patents & Other IP

Accord Aims to Create Trove of Genetic Data

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.05.2013
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced...
Biotech & Pharma

Mexican Americans Sterilized Disproportionately in California Institutions, Study Says

By Roque Planas, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2013
When a woman identified by the pseudonym of Minelva entered Pacific Colony, a California “home for the feebleminded,” she had...
Biopolitics

De-Extinction Debate: Should Extinct Species Be Revived?

By Liza Gross, KQED | 06.05.2013
Last month, hundreds of experts who study human-environment interactions called on policymakers to take immediate action to curb humanity’s ecologically...
Synthetic Biology

Spirometry: A Built-in ‘Correction’ For Race?

By Lundy Braun, Brown University | 06.03.2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Lundy Braun studies racial health disparities and their history as a professor of both pathology...
Public Opinion

They’re Coming for Your DNA

By Emily Bazelon, Slate | 06.03.2013
DNA analysis is the major crime-solving advance of our time. It’s the science behind many exonerations, and many more guilty...
Genomics