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

Stem-Cell Ruling Riles Researchers

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.26.2013
Clinics that offer unproven stem-cell treatments often end up playing cat and mouse with health regulators, no matter which country...
Bioethics

You Don't "Own" Your Own Genes

By Press Release, Weill Cornell Medical College | 03.25.2013

NEW YORK (March 25, 2013) — Humans don't "own" their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are...

U.S. Federal

Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals are More Likely to Reoffend

By Regina Nuzzo, Nature | 03.25.2013
In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to...
Biotech & Pharma

Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions

By Ruha Benjamin, Huffington Post | 03.25.2013
The old photograph struck me immediately. The caption read: "Ella Tyree, 29, inject[ing] atomic materials into animals to determine effects...
Biotech & Pharma

Sperm Donor with Genetic Illness Speaks Out

By PS, The Copenhagen Post | 03.25.2013
A former sperm donor may have passed on a heritable and treatable cancer-causing illness to half of the children created...
Other Countries

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel

By Rebecca Skloot, The New York Times | 03.23.2013
LAST week, scientists sequenced the genome of cells taken without consent from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She was a...
Bioethics

Surrogacy's Painful Path to Parenthood

By Julia Medew, The Age | 03.23.2013
When Sam Everingham employed an Indian surrogate to carry a child for him in 2009, he never imagined losing two...
Other Countries

Resurrected Mammoths and Dodos? Don't Count on it

By David Ehrenfeld, The Guardian | 03.23.2013
I recently spoke at Revive & Restore's TEDx DeExtinction event at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington DC. Most...
Human Cloning