News

Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.07.2026

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

U.S. Federal

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

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...

Genetic Selection

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

CGS and the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research comments on the draft final CIRM research standards [PDF]

By Susan Berke Fogel and Marcy Darnovsky | 04.28.2006
Human Cloning

Editorial: Oversight at Pitt: Whither due diligence?

By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 04.26.2006

A superstar at the University of Pittsburgh was not subjected to commonsensical oversight by his institution.
Gerald Schatten was senior...

Human Cloning

Hwang case: egg donors sue researchers and government

By Asia News, AsiaNews.it | 04.25.2006

Seoul (AsiaNews/CI) _ Two women who donated eggs for embryonic stem cell research by the disgraced cloning scientist, Hwang Woo-suk...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, New York Times | 04.24.2006
COLUMBIA, Mo., April 19 _ Democrats are pressing their support for embryonic stem cell research in Congressional races around the...
Stem Cells

A booming baby business

By Evan Pondel, LA Daily News | 04.23.2006
Her credentials read like any college graduate applying for a job, but instead of seeking employment, Angel is selling her...
Biotech & Pharma

Lax oversight by Pitt enabled Schatten fiasco

By By Jennifer Bails and Luis Fabregas, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 04.23.2006
The University of Pittsburgh's lax policies and disregard for federal guidelines allowed biologist Gerald Schatten to participate in one of...
Human Cloning

Calif. Stem Cell Agency Still in Limbo

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 04.22.2006
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's $3 billion stem cell research institute won an important victory with a court ruling rejecting challenges...
Stem Cells

Liberty and Justice in the Gene Age

By Marcy Darnovsky | 04.22.2006

Abstract of a presentation at Is There a Global Bioethics? Moral, Legal, and International Norms in Bioscience, New York, NY...