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

Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 03.08.2013
Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of...
Genetic Selection

Should Cloning be Used for “De-Extinction”?

By John R. Platt, Scientific American | 03.06.2013
At some point in the next decade, if advances in biotechnology continue on their current path, clones of extinct species...
Human Cloning

Surrogate Offered $10,000 to Abort Baby

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 03.06.2013
(CNN) -- Crystal Kelley ran through the calendar once again in her head.

It was August, and if she got...
U.S. States

UCSF Discovery a Potential "Earthquake" for Stem Cell Therapies

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 03.04.2013
A new type of stem cell, discovered by UCSF researchers, may open new possibilities for fixing damaged parts of the...
Biopolitics

Meet the New Eugenics, Same as the Old Eugenics

By Gina Maranto, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor | 03.04.2013
The unfortunate truth is that discredited ideas never do die, they just rise again in slightly altered forms—witness eugenics.  Despite...
Technologies

BRCA1 gene patent ruling to be appealed

By Amy Corderoy, The Age [Australia] | 03.04.2013
A decision that private companies can control human genes will be appealed in the Federal Court.

Cancer groups have applauded...
Other Countries

Surrogacy Laws May Leave Australian Babies Stateless

By Kerry Brewster, ABC News [Australia] | 03.04.2013
In Australia, commercial surrogacy is illegal. The ban has resulted in a steady flow of heterosexual and gay Australians to...
Other Countries

Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth

By Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.04.2013
Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon.

More than a decade ago...
Biotech & Pharma