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

DNA Tool Kit Goes Live Online

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.12.2013
The latest shopping website is open for business, offering unusual wares: DNA tools to help biologists to engineer life.

The...
Biotech & Pharma

If Your Dog is About to Die, Why Not Clone It?

By Leo Hickman, Guardian | 03.11.2013
Insung Hwang's business, according to his website, is "healing broken hearts". Specifically those of people who have lost a beloved...
Other Countries

The British Embryo Authority and the Chamber of Eugenics

By Stuart A. Newman, Huffington Post | 03.11.2013
Scene: A laboratory setting. A scientist begins constructing a new individual by combining parts from two different humans. A new...
Genetic Selection

Book Review: Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares

By John Galloway, BioNews | 03.11.2013
Perhaps fortuitously, I started to read Maxwell Mehlman's book at the same time as Roy Porter's 'A Short...
Synthetic Biology

Clinic Ships in Eggs From US 'Bank' to Tackle Shortage

By Julia Medew, The Sydney Morning Herald | 03.10.2013
Australians have started paying $19,000 to import eggs from American women under a new deal that will provide hope to...
Other Countries

California Bill Seeks Pay for Women Who Donate Eggs for Research

By Melody Gutierrez, The Sacramento Bee | 03.10.2013
Five years ago, Alice Crisci froze her eggs, knowing she could be left infertile after chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer...
Biopolitics

Donor Wombs: Giving Women Without Uteruses a Chance to Carry a Baby Stirs Assisted Baby Making Debate

By Sharon Kirkey, Edmonton Journal | 03.10.2013
In a world first attempt to achieve a pregnancy following a womb transplant, doctors in Turkey are preparing to transfer...
Other Countries

Potentially Endless Line of Mice Cloned

By Tanya Lewis, NBC News | 03.08.2013
Watch out, George Lucas, there's a new attack of the clones, and these ones are furry.

Japanese researchers have created...
Human Cloning