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

Who should own DNA? All of us

By Marcy Darnovsky and Karuna Jaggar, Los Angeles Times | 04.12.2013

Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Lord Robert Winston Warning Over Child ‘Eugenics’

By Lyndsay Buckland, Scotsman | 04.11.2013
GENETIC technologies could be exploited in the future to produce more intelligent, stronger and attractive offspring, with better regulation needed...
Genetic Selection

Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale — A Brave New World?

By I. Glenn Cohen and Eli Y. Adashi, The New England Journal of Medicine | 04.10.2013

[For original article with footnotes, see here]

Embryo donation (also known as embryo adoption) is the compassionate gifting of...

Bioethics

Microbes Can Mass-Produce Malaria Drug

By Emily Singer, MIT Technology Review | 04.10.2013
For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of spewing out malaria drugs on...
Biotech & Pharma

Baby Boom: Indian Women Giving Birth to U.S. Babies

By Holly Williams, CBS News | 04.10.2013
(CBS News) ANAND, India -- A lot of businesses go to India for inexpensive labor and it turns out American...
Other Countries

The Right to Speak Out

By Editorial, Nature | 04.09.2013

What do Adam, Eve and the Queen of Sheba have to do with libel reform? Ask David Balding and Mark...

Biopolitics

Genetics: A Gene of Rare Effect

By Stephen S. Hall, Nature | 04.09.2013
When Sharlayne Tracy showed up at the clinical suite in the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...
Genomics

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

By Pete Shanks, Alternet | 04.08.2013

There's a buzz now around bringing species back from the dead. There's even a spiffy new name for it: "de-extinction."...

Genomics