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

Latest Figures on Fertility Treatment, Birth Rate and Multiple Births are Released

By Matt Thomas, BioNews | 02.11.2013
Figures released by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) reveal the number of IVF cycles performed each year...
Biotech & Pharma

Inside China’s Genome Factory

By Christina Larson, MIT Technology Review | 02.11.2013
When he was 17 years old, Zhao Bowen dropped out of Beijing’s most prestigious high school. Like many restless young...
Other Countries

Horror in a Mass Sterilization Camp: Unconscious Indian Women Were Dumped in a Field After Undergoing a Painful Sterilization Operation

By Carol Kuruvilla, New York Daily News | 02.07.2013
Hospital staff at a mass sterilization camp in West Bengal dumped more than 100 women in a field to recover...
Bioethics

Did Sperm and Egg Donors Unwittingly Contribute to NIH-Approved Stem Cells?

By Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider | 02.07.2013
A review of the 200 or so human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines approved by the National Institutes of Health...
Assisted Reproduction

New Study Finds Number of Multiple Births Affected by Congenital Anomalies has Doubled in the Last 30 Years

By BJOG, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 02.06.2013

The number of congenital anomalies, or birth defects, arising from multiple births has almost doubled since the 1980s, suggests a...

Assisted Reproduction

Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy

By Advocates for Informed Choice, Advocates for Informed Choice | 02.06.2013

Dear Friends,

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) has just issued a statement calling for an end to...

Bioethics

Eugenics Compensation Bill Sidelined in Va. House

By Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot | 02.05.2013
A bipartisan proposal to compensate Virginians who were involuntarily sterilized during the eugenics era is going nowhere, sidelined by its...
Bioethics

Scientists Use 3-D Printer to Speed Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American | 02.04.2013
Every week, it seems, there’s a new breakthrough in 3-D printing that promises us the ability to (eventually) fabricate some...
Stem Cells