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

For prospective parents in the market for a blonde-haired, blue-eyed tot, Danish sperm markes the sale

By Newsday, Newsday | 06.05.2005

At 5-foot-11, Arnt has straight blond hair and blue eyes. He swims, runs, skis on water and snow, and works...

Assisted Reproduction

Geneticists Getting Close to Engineering Good Looks

By Lee Dye, ABC News | 06.01.2005

Just a few years ago most scientists thought that the technical barriers to eliminating some inheritable diseases and producing designer...

Eugenics

Fast-moving cloning developments spark new worries

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.30.2005
Oversight concerns shadow new technology

Rapid advances in cloning technology have prompted new warnings of lax oversight in one of...
Human Cloning

Name Games and the Science of Life

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 05.29.2005
WHAT'S in a name? When it comes to controversial science, a lot.

South Korean scientists recently announced that they had...
Media Coverage

Editorial: No compromise on stem cell research conflicts

By admin Sacramento Bee | 05.29.2005
Two months ago, this page provided leaders of California's $3 billion stem cell institute with a map for heading off...
Patents & Other IP

Editorial: Stem Cell Research Accountability

By admin Los Angeles Times | 05.26.2005
California's stem cell research institute is one of those rare but exciting ideas that offer the chance to do well...
Stem Cells

Editorial: Stem cell compromise

By admin Sacramento Bee | 05.26.2005
California's Legislature and the state's $3 billion stem cell research institute are engaged in a dangerous game of political chicken...
Patents & Other IP

Opinion: Eggs Over Easy? False Dawn for Stem Cell Cures

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 05.25.2005
Many people focused on only one word in the banner headlines over news that Korean scientists have successfully cloned 11...
Human Cloning