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

The Dark Art of Racecraft

By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic | 05.13.2013
Dave Weigel is one of my favorite reporters, but I think this piece on Jason Richwine, intelligence research, and "race"...
Civil Society

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

By Kevin Hartnett, The Boston Globe | 05.12.2013
Imagine you stop by a Starbucks one morning, and the shop is robbed only minutes after you leave. Witnesses say...
Genomics

Dad Aims to Change Views of Down Syndrome in New Book

By Jessica Ryen Doyle, Fox News | 05.11.2013
For George Estreich, the decision to write a book about his daughter, Laura, and her diagnosis of Down syndrome came...
Public Opinion

Crisis-Burdened Spain and Cyprus are Hot Spots for Women to Sell Their Eggs

By Lauren Alix Brown, Quartz | 05.10.2013
Egg donations thrive off the young and desperate. For years, US college campuses have been plastered with signs imploring young...
Other Countries

On Vampires and Chromosomes

By George Estreich, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.09.2013
If our entertainments reveal what’s on our collective minds, then we seem to be thinking quite a bit about human...
Technologies

Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

By Adam Serwer, Mother Jones | 05.08.2013
Jason Richwine, the coauthor of the conservative Heritage Foundation's controversial study on the supposed $6.3 trillion cost of comprehensive immigration...
Biopolitics

ACMG Issues Clarification Over Incidental Findings Guidance

By Dr Philippa Brice and Dr Ron Zimmern, PHG Foundation | 05.07.2013
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has released a clarification of recent guidance issued on the subject of incidental...
Bioethics

A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 05.07.2013
Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started...
Biotech & Pharma