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

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

By Zhang Wen, Global Times | 04.07.2013
Despite law enforcers shutting down a surrogacy service in the capital last month, similar agencies are still providing the lucrative...
Other Countries

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.06.2013
The UK is moving closer to three-parent children after the fertility regulator informed the government that the public would back...
Genetic Selection

Powder women's eggs for home storage

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 04.04.2013
JUST add water and sperm – any romance should be provided separately. In future, women who want to safeguard their...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Should researchers pay for women's eggs?

By Ruha Benjamin, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.04.2013
Many critics of the publicly funded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine have fixated on conflicts of interest that plague the...
Human Cloning

As White House Embraces BRAIN Initiative, Questions Linger

By Emily Underwood, ScienceInsider | 04.03.2013

For neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, sitting in an ornate White House chamber yesterday listening to President Barack Obama heap praise—and some...

U.S. Federal

New gene therapy births 'designer baby' fears

By Gavin O'Toole, Al Jazeera (English) | 04.03.2013
London, UK - Fertility regulators in the UK have paved the way for the introduction of a radical form of...
Human Genetic Modification

Tough Calls on Prenatal Tests

By Christopher Weaver, Wall Street Journal | 04.03.2013
New prenatal blood tests for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome are reshaping care for expectant mothers, but their rapid...
Assisted Reproduction

Come and get it: how sperm became one of America's hottest exports

By Brooke Jarvis, The Verge | 04.02.2013
I'd been friends with Chris for years when he mentioned, casually, that he's a father.

Or probably is - as...
Biotech & Pharma