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

'Designer Baby' Gets Go-Ahead (UK)

By Deutsche Welle, Deutsche Welle | 09.10.2004

A couple in Northern Ireland have been permitted under a recent law in Great Britain to pursue the process which...

Stem Cells

California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.10.2004
California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

Gretchen Vogel
Science
September 10, 2004

President George W. Bush may end...

U.S. States

Italian minister in trouble after stem cell transplant announcement

By Rossella Lorenzi, The Scientist | 09.09.2004
Calls for his resignation abound after stem cell transplant announcement

Politicians and scientists in Italy are calling for the resignation...
Genetic Selection

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning

By Viginia Commonwealth University, Viginia Commonwealth University | 09.07.2004

How much do you favor or oppose...

 

  Strongly Favor Somewhat Favor Somewhat Oppose  Strongly Oppose Don’t Know No...
Society

Rush for designer babies

By Nick Papps, The Sunday Mail (Australia) | 09.05.2004
HUNDREDS of Australian couples are avoiding the law and buying designer babies in the United States. A Sunday Mail investigation...
Human Genetic Modification

Singapore bans cloning

By Reuters, Reuters | 09.02.2004

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Singapore banned human cloning on Thursday and said offenders would face 10 years in jail to prevent...

Biotech & Pharma

Babies at risk of being 'commodities', says Lord Winston

By Simon Collins, New Zealand Herald | 09.02.2004
Genetic pioneer Lord Robert Winston says the technology that he helped develop now risks turning babies into "commodities".

The British...
Bioethics

Stem cells, slick sells and other political soft soap

By Peter Schrag, Sacramento Bee | 09.01.2004
Proposition 71, the initiative on the November ballot authorizing $3 billion in bonds for stem cell research, bids fair to...
Biotech & Pharma