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

Precision StemCell: Selling Stem Cells & Treating Individuals With ALS as Human Guinea Pigs

By Leigh Turner, Health in the Global Village | 05.06.2013
When journalists and health researchers write about patients seeking access to unproven stem cell interventions, they typically examine international travel...
Other Countries

Sixty Years of a DNA World View

By Sujatha Byravan, The Hindu | 05.06.2013
Over the last week, there have been several articles celebrating the passage of 60 years since James Watson and Francis...
Biotech & Pharma

Baby Sex-Selection Tours Increasingly Popular with Australian Couples Using IVF

By Natasha Bita, News.com.au | 05.05.2013
Global Health Travel is offering baby sex-selection trips to Thailand and Malaysia.

For $12,000, couples can spend 11 days in...
Global Governance

The Real Problems With Psychiatry

By Hope Reese, The Atlantic | 05.02.2013
 On May 22, the American Psychiatric Association will release the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the...
Bioethics

Nation’s First Egg Bank Deluged With Donors

By Mizuho Aoki, The Japan Times | 05.02.2013
The first egg bank in Japan is expected to register initial donors by midmonth to help infertile young married women...
Other Countries

<i>Cracked Open</i>: New Book Looks at Fertility and Reproductive Technology

By Rachel, Our Bodies Our Blog | 04.30.2013
Our Bodies Ourselves board member Miriam Zoll has a new book coming out on May 1, Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility...
Bioethics

Patenting Parthenotes: High Court Asks if Parthenotes are 'Human Embryos' Under the Biotech Directive

By Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews | 04.29.2013

The UK's High Court has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to clarify if human parthenotes...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

DNA at 60: Still Much to Learn

By Philip Ball, Scientific American | 04.28.2013
This week's diamond jubilee of the discovery of DNA's molecular structure rightly celebrates how Francis Crick, James Watson and their...
Biopolitics