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

Wake Forest examines eugenics here and abroad

By John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal | 04.02.2013

North Carolina's program of forced sterilization for social purposes shares an infamous place in history with the eugenics movement elsewhere...

Other Countries

Can We Patent Life?

By Michael Specter, The New Yorker | 04.02.2013
On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk, who had recently invented the polio vaccine, appeared on the television news show "See...
Biotech & Pharma

Not every woman should get the BRCA gene test, U.S. task force says

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 04.01.2013
Certain mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes can increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer or ovarian cancer...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sex-Selective Discrimination Common in Indian Wombs: US Study

By Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times | 03.31.2013

Indian women carrying male foetuses are likelier to receive pre-natal medical care than their counterparts pregnant with girls, a new...

Other Countries

New Technology Can Make It So 1 Baby Has 3 Parents

By CBS, CBS New York [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.29.2013

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New technology could bring babies into the world with three biological parents. The procedure is close...

Human Genetic Modification

Biological Computer Created at Stanford

By Lisa Krieger, Mercury News | 03.29.2013
A team of Stanford engineers has made a simple computer inside a living cell, where it could detect disease, warn...
Synthetic Biology

Designer Babies [video]

By Mike Sacks, HuffPost Live | 03.29.2013
Human Genetic Modification

UK May Be Close To Approving Nuclear Transfer Technique for IVF

By John Farrell, Forbes | 03.28.2013

The conception of children who share the genes of three parents could be one step closer to reality.

Last week...

Human Genetic Modification