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

Stem cell funding proves elusive

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 04.16.2006
CHICAGO _ Despite the hype and debate about stem cell research, there are very few stem cell-based therapies and therefore...
Biotech & Pharma

Editorial: For $10,000, you get ...

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 04.16.2006

Frustrated by lawsuits that have held up funding for California's $3 billion stem cell research institute, some of San Francisco's...

Technologies

Opinion: The legal lock on stem cells

By Jennifer Washburn, Los Angeles Times | 04.12.2006
CALIFORNIA'S $3-billion stem cell program has encountered repeated setbacks since it was approved by voters 17 months ago. Now it...
Biotech & Pharma

In End Run Around Legal Challenge, California Gives Out Stem Cell Research Grants

By Carolyn Marshall, New York Times | 04.11.2006
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 _ California's program to study embryonic stem cells awarded its first round of grants Monday, drawing...
Fact Sheets

Babies to Order

By Sarah Kliff, Current Magazine | 04.11.2006
Summer 2006 issue - Three years out of graduate school, Julia Derek has twelve kids. Or so she thinks. As...

Opinion: Stem-cell grants ought to hinge on public benefits

By John Simpson, San Jose Mercury News | 04.10.2006
Remember the kid on the playground who threatened to pick up his marbles unless he got his way? Meet the...
Patents & Other IP

Embryo Stem-Cell Research Spreads Despite Curbs

By Antonio Regalado, Wall Street Journal | 04.04.2006
For U.S. scientists studying human-embryo stem cells, it is the best of times and the worst of times.

More than...
Biotech & Pharma

Stem cell agency's bid to get cash criticized

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 04.02.2006
SAN FRANCISCO - What's in a name? Well, to the cash-strapped stem cell agency that Californians created with a 2004...
Fact Sheets