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

Doctors Should Tell Patients About Some, But Not All, Unexpected Genetic Findings

By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 03.22.2013
On Thursday, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommended that doctors tell patients about certain genetic disease risks...
Bioethics

The Ultimate Easter Egg Hunt: ‘Ivy League Couple’ Seeks Donor With ‘Highest Scores’

By Melinda Henneberger, The Washington Post | 03.21.2013
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — “Exceptional egg donor needed,” said a recent ad in the Harvard Crimson. The couple looking for that...
Bioethics

Patients Should Get DNA Information, Report Recommends

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science Insider | 03.21.2013
Fourteen genetics experts, with the backing of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), are proposing a radical...
Bioethics

Alarm over genetic control of embryos

By [Letter to the editor], The Times [UK] | 03.20.2013

Sir, We are writing in regard to the HFEA’s recent consultation on what it calls “mitochondrial replacement”, about which we...

Human Genetic Modification

HealthWatch: Britain Considers Allowing Babies From 3 Parents [Video]

By Kim Mulvihill, CBS San Francisco | 03.20.2013
Genetic Selection

Fixing Psychiatric Research At A University

By Ed Silverman, Pharmalot | 03.20.2013
Over the past few years, University of Minnesota bioethicist Carl Elliott has explored a complicated and increasingly controversial episode over...
Media Coverage

Three-Person IVF Moves Closer in UK

By James Gallagher, BBC News | 03.20.2013
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised the government that there is no evidence the advanced forms of...
Genetic Selection

Grocers Won’t Sell Altered Fish, Groups Say

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.20.2013
Several supermarket chains have pledged not to sell what could become the first genetically modified animal to reach the nation’s...
Human Genetic Modification