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

In a first, New Jersey awards stem-cell grants

By Philadelphia Inquirer , Philadelphia Inquirer | 12.17.2005

The state became the first in the nation yesterday to fund stem-cell research, awarding grants to 17 researchers at universities...

Policies

Collaborator Says Korean Cloning Pioneer Admitted Faking Stem Cell Results

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 12.15.2005

SEOUL, South Korea -- A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk said in a...

Human Cloning

In the brains of mice grow the cells of man

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.13.2005

Researchers in San Diego have designed mice containing fully functional human nerve cells as a novel way to study and...

Bioethics

Opinion: What California can learn from Korean cloning scandal

By Nigel M. de S. Cameron and M. L. Tina Stevens, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.13.2005
News that the world's leading cloning expert, Hwang Woo Suk, resigned after admitting unethical research practices stunned the science community...
Assisted Reproduction

California's Stem Cell Program Is Hobbled but Staying the Course

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.10.2005
After nearly an entire morning of sometimes heated debate the other day, the board overseeing California's $3 billion stem cell...
U.S. States

State's stem cell institute is still stuck in neutral

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 12.10.2005
In the 13 months since California voters approved spending $3 billion of their tax dollars on stem cell research, not...
Biotech & Pharma

New Criticism Rages Over South Korean Cell Research

By New York Times, New York Times | 12.10.2005

A new round of criticism has broken out in South Korea over the accuracy of a recent article that reported...

Biotech & Pharma

Feb. 27 court date for Charter test of stem cell program; Foes say enterprise is illegal because it's outside state control

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.07.2005

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw set a trial for Feb. 27 to decide whether California's Proposition 71 stem...

Stem Cells