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

Women sue lab that promised to tell gender of embryo

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 03.01.2006

BOSTON - Sixteen women have filed a federal class action lawsuit against a Lowell laboratory, claiming that it failed to...

Stem Cell Initiative [MP3]

By Pilar Ossorio, Christopher Thomas Scott, Deborah Ortiz, and Jesse Reynolds, KQED Forum | 03.01.2006
Media Coverage

2005 Annual Report [PDF]

By admin | 03.01.2006

Stem cell research growing

By Richard Clough, Daily Bruin | 02.27.2006
In an example of the rapid expansion of stem cell research in the state of California, USC announced late last...
Fact Sheets

Stem-cell oracles

By Dan Pine, J. The Jewish newsweekly of northern California | 02.23.2006
Claire LeVine loves to watch her 7-year-old grandson, Bobby Stearns, play his heart out in Little League. She loves to...
Religion

Ortiz wants audit of stem-cell institute

By Sacramento Business Journal, Sacramento Business Journal | 02.22.2006

State Sen. Deborah Ortiz and 10 other California legislators have asked for an audit of the California Institute for Regenerative...

Stem Cells

Fake findings used to secure $16M grant

By Jennifer Bails, Pittsburgh Tribune Review | 02.22.2006
A University of Pittsburgh reproductive biologist relied on the now-discredited stem-cell findings of a disgraced Korean scientist to win a...
Stem Cells

The Future of Violence Against Women

By Sujatha Jesudason, US Women Without Borders | 02.21.2006

I was born into a culture that embraces confusing messages about the worth and value of women. I grew up...

Human Rights