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 research clashes: Senate panel raises bar on conflict-of-interest rules

By Laura Kurtzman, San Jose Mercury News | 04.21.2005
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to enact stricter conflict-of-interest rules on stem-cell research funded by Proposition 71 sailed out of a...
Human Cloning

Charles Halpern Letter regarding proposed reforms to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

By Charles Halpern | 04.20.2005
Senator Deborah Ortiz, Chair
Senator George Runner, Vice-Chair
Members, Senate Health Committee
State Capitol
Sacramento, California

RE: Support for SCA...
U.S. States

Letters from CGS and the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research regarding proposed reforms to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

By Marcy Darnovsky and Susan Berke Fogel | 04.20.2005

Letters from the Center for Genetics and Society and the Pro-choice Alliance for Responsible Research regarding proposed reforms to the...

Human Cloning

Learning From California's Mistake

By Richard Hayes, TomPaine.com | 04.18.2005

Support for stem cell research is sweeping the country. Legislators in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Florida, Washington and perhaps a...

Stem Cells

India still fighting to 'save the girl child'

By Amelia Gentleman, International Herald Tribune | 04.15.2005
In his well-appointed, air-conditioned ultrasound clinic in South Delhi, Dr. Varun Dugal is doing his utmost to enforce a law...
Other Countries

The conflict over conflicts

By Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 04.14.2005
The stem cell institute moves to rein in conflicts of interest, but some concerns remain The state committee that will...
Biotech & Pharma

Background: Cloned and Genetically Modified Animals

By admin | 04.14.2005
Several animal species have already been genetically modified, and at least eleven have been cloned, though some scientists doubt the...
Animal Biotechnologies

UK woman killed by rare IVF risk, Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome

By BBC News, BBC News | 04.13.2005

Temilola Akinbolagbe, 33, from Plumstead, south London, collapsed at a bus stop after developing Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS).

The potentially...

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