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

Technology helps Indians choose baby's sex

By Australian Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Company | 11.12.2004

New reproductive technologies are tipping the sex balance of babies born in India further in favour of boys, an international...

Other Countries

'Designer babies' bill through after eight years (New Zealand)

By stuff.co.nz, stuff.co.nz | 11.11.2004

Labour MP Dianne Yates says she would still like tighter regulations controlling aspects of fertility treatments and the creation of...

Genetic Selection

UN Nears Showdown on Pact to Ban Stem Cell Study

By Irwin Arieff, Reuters | 11.11.2004
Talks at the United Nations appear to have failed to avert a new U.N. confrontation over a U.S.-led drive to...
Human Cloning

Experts discuss Prop. 71 ethics

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 11.10.2004
The most controversial aspects of Proposition 71 will have strict oversight, experts speaking at a Stanford University forum said Tuesday...
Stem Cells

Show Time for Stem-Cell Science

By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News | 11.10.2004
Stem-cell researchers have little time to celebrate the $3 billion that California voters lavished on them Nov. 2. There's a...
Stem Cells

Stem Cell Researchers Flock To CA

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 11.09.2004
A 21st-century gold rush is on in California after the voters approved $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research....
Human Cloning

Clone Ban Unlikely to Pass Senate

By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News | 11.08.2004
California may now be a haven for stem-cell research, but the federal government is still debating the legality of some...
Human Cloning

Prop. 71: Promises to keep

By Steve Usdin, The Bernstein Report on Biobusiness | 11.08.2004

Passage of Proposition 71, the $3 billion California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, was a sure thing: Offered up...

Biotech & Pharma