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 battle looms: Strictures in Prop. 71 generate some concern

By Daniel S. Levine, San Francisco Business Times | 12.03.2004
When life-science executives gathered for the California Health Care Institute's annual public forum just days after the November election, the...
Stem Cells

'Altered Nuclear Transfer-ANT' Crosses Ethical Boundaries [PDF]

By International Center for Technology Assessment | 12.03.2004
Assisted Reproduction

Costly Cloning Isn't a Cure-All

By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News | 12.01.2004
Of the small number of Americans who have any idea what therapeutic cloning is, the majority likely believes it essential...
Biotech & Pharma

Disability Community and Identity: Perceptions of Prenatal Screening

By Deborah Kaplan and Marsha Saxton, Excerpt from Our Bodies Ourselves (2005 edition) | 11.30.2004

People with disabilities come to the genetic screening debate from a perspective that perplexes many scientists and medical professionals. We...

Disability Rights

California's New Stem-Cell Initiative Is Already Raising Concerns

By John M. Broder, The New York Times | 11.27.2004
As California moves to begin a lushly financed program of embryonic stem cell research, medical ethicists and other skeptics are...
Patents & Other IP

Embryo screening 'devalues' disabled (New Zealand)

By Rebecca Palmer, Stuff NZ | 11.25.2004
Screening human embryos for serious genetic conditions could "devalue" disabled children, the Office of the Children's Commissioner says.


Commission policy...
Disability Rights

Stem-cell question may land on ballot

By John Chase and Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune | 11.24.2004
Plan to let voters decide in 2006

Days after state legislators voted down a largely symbolic measure supporting privately funded...
U.S. States

Divvying Up The Stem Cell Bonanza

By Business Week, Business Week | 11.22.2004

California's Proposition 71 has critics of conflicts and favoritism ready to pounce


Long before California voters passed Proposition 71 on...

Technologies