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 measure brings foes together

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 10.20.2004
PROP. 71 IS BLURRING USUAL DIVIDING LINE


Embryonic stem cell research is creating this election year's oddest political bedfellows, redrawing...
Patents & Other IP

Rivals charge Prop. 71 conflict

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 10.20.2004
Stem cell researcher in 'yes' ads could get rich, they contend.
LOS ANGELES - Stem cell initiative opponents on Tuesday...
Patents & Other IP

Genetics: Deaf By Design

By Carina Dennis, Nature | 10.20.2004
Employing genetic diagnosis to avoid having a baby with a disability is controversial enough. But a minority of deaf people...
Genetic Selection

Schwarzenegger backs stem cell plan

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 10.19.2004

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed a $3 billion bond measure that would fund human embryonic...

Policies

Key UN Envoy Backs a Delay in Cloning Treaty Vote

By Irwin Arieff, Reuters | 10.19.2004
A key U.N. diplomat pledged on Monday to do all he could to avoid a vote this year on a...
Human Cloning

S. Korea Backs [Delaying] U.N. Meeting on Stem Cell Research

By Irwin Arieff, Reuters | 10.19.2004
South Korea said on Tuesday it asked the United States to accept another year's delay in the drafting of a...
Human Cloning

Babies with three parents ahead

By Antony Barnett and Robin McKie, The Observer | 10.17.2004
Scientists are seeking permission to carry out experiments that would result in children being born with three biological parents. UK...
Human Genetic Modification

Prop. 71 a risky experiment in squandering public monies

By David Winickoff, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.17.2004
In a few weeks, Californians will be voting on Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. If...
Stem Cells