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

Refereeing the Next Big Boom

By Chris Thompson, East Bay Express | 01.19.2005
Say what you will about why Californians voted for the stem-cell research initiative. Whether they genuinely believed in the field's...
Biotech & Pharma

Financier Set to Oversee Stem-Cell Program

By Lisa M. Krieger and Paul Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News | 01.16.2005
Businessman behind Prop. 71 has become powerful player
Mercury News

Faced with a massive federal roadblock to his plans to...
Biotech & Pharma

Guidelines to precede stem cell grants

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.13.2005
Board chairman says ethical issues will be resolved

Robert N. Klein, chairman of California's new stem cell institute, has moved...
Stem Cells

South Korea approves cloning research

By Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse | 01.12.2005

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea (news - web sites) gave official government backing to ground-breaking research that produced the world's...

Policies

Stem cell panel must show accountability to the public

By admin San Jose Mercury News | 01.11.2005
Californians took a giant leap of faith when they passed Proposition 71 in November, providing $3 billion in funding for...
Stem Cells

Shortage of girls forces China to criminalise selective abortion

By Simon Parry, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.09.2005
The Chinese government is to make the selective abortion of female foetuses a criminal offence and will ban parents from...
Other Countries

Editorial: Clear boundaries: Stem cell group must be open, ethical

By admin Sacramento Bee | 01.09.2005
California's landmark stem cell research program has the potential to produce some Nobel Prize-winning science. But it doesn't win any...
Biotech & Pharma

Opinion: The opaque petri dish

By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee | 01.09.2005
Law gives small group tight control of $3 billion in stem cell funds

Imagine that a partnership of scientists and...
Patents & Other IP