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

Stem-Cell Cloner Acknowledges Errors in Groundbreaking Paper

By David Cyranoski & Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 05.23.2013
A blockbuster paper that reported the creation of human stem-cell lines through cloning has come under fire. An anonymous online...
Stem Cells

Pregnant at 60

By Miriam Zoll, The Atlantic | 05.22.2013
In her best selling novel, State of Wonder, author Ann Patchett draws us into the science-fiction world of an...
Assisted Reproduction

Grant Reviewer Conflict in $40 Million Round at California Stem Cell Agency

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 05.21.2013
Internationally renown scientist Lee Hood, winner of a National Medal of Science, violated the conflict of interest policies of...
Biopolitics

An invitation to meet George Estreich at the Center for Genetics and Society on Monday, June 3

By Flagged | 05.21.2013

Please join us at the CGS office on Monday June 3 at 4:30 pm for a conversation with award-winning author...

Technologies

America: Human and Animal Cloning, ESCs

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.20.2013

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

Society

Angelina Jolie and the One Percent

By Gayle Sulik, Scientific American | 05.20.2013
After learning that she had inherited a mutation on one of the so-called breast cancer genes, actress Angelina Jolie decided...
Public Opinion

Time-Lapse Embryo Imaging Boosts IVF Success, Clinic Claims

By Emma Stoye, BioNews | 05.20.2013
A new technique for monitoring embryo health could increase the chance of IVF couples having a healthy baby, according to...
Assisted Reproduction

Back to the Future: Cloning Human Stem Cells [VIDEO]

By Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera | 05.17.2013


In a major step forward in science, biologists have finally managed to create human stem cells through cloning. Some say...

Assisted Reproduction