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

Boston IVF Receives $1 Million From U.S. Health and Human Services To Develop National Protocol To Promote The Use Of Embryo Donation As A Family Building Option

By Press Release, The Wall Street Journal | 04.23.2013

BOSTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston IVF, a leading medical practice providing specialized infertility treatment since 1986, has received...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Nuffield Report: Parents Should Decide Whether or Not to 'Tell'

By Wybo Dondorp, BioNews | 04.22.2013
Last week, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics presented its report on ethical aspects of information sharing in donor conception. Although...
Global Governance

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

By Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2013

If you had the option, would you use genetic engineering to choose certain traits for your children? But beyond picking...

Genetic Selection

That “Pernicious” Notion of the “Best Interests of the Child”

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.20.2013
Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states what everyone considers to be a...
Human Rights

In Australia, Gene Patents Also Subject of High Court Struggle

By Leigh Dayton, Science | 04.19.2013
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't the only high court considering a precedent-setting case on patenting human genes. Australia's Full Federal...
Other Countries

Startup uBiome Will Catalog Your Microbes, Again and Again

By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 04.18.2013
Sequencing startup uBiome marked its next phase today with the launch of its new sales site where customers can order...
Biotech & Pharma

Which Comes First: The Woman or Her Eggs?

By Ruha Benjamin, Huffington Post | 04.17.2013
To Pay or Not to Pay

Imagine two women sitting in a waiting room -- one is a store clerk...
Bioethics

Surrogacy: Joyful, Frightening, Always Risky

By Suzanne Rico, The Atlantic | 04.17.2013
I first met Dawn Bennett in 2007 at my fertility doctor's office. Her long black hair was pulled back from...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights