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

NGO for UN life sciences technology evaluation body

By Gireesh Chandra Prasad , Express Pharma Pulse | 01.24.2004

NGO for UN life sciences technology evaluation body

Gireesh Chandra Prasad
Express Pharma Pulse
January 22, 2004

Canada-based NGO "etc...

Human Genetic Modification

Gods and Monsters

By Mark Dowie, Mother Jones (January/February 2004) | 12.31.2003

ON APRIL FOOLS' DAY 1998, within hours of reading U.S. patent application No. 08/993,564, the Honorable Bruce Lehman did something...

Patents & Other IP

High-Tech Sex Selection

By Marcy Darnovsky, GeneWatch | 12.31.2003

In the United States and a few other prosperous, technologically advanced countries, methods of sex selection that are less intrusive...

Genetic Selection

The Ghost of Medical Atrocities

By Howard Markel, M.D., New York Times | 12.12.2003
Ever since 1972, when the American public first learned about the Tuskegee syphilis research that subjected African-American men to scientific...
Human Rights

2003 CGS Report on the UN Cloning Treaty Negotiations

By admin | 11.24.2003
On November 6, 2003, after two years of debate and no substantive action, the United Nations voted to suspend until...
Global Governance

Should We Improve Our Genome?

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 11.11.2003
Now that we have decoded the human genome, why don't we improve it?

The question is at present theoretical but...

Eugenics

Cloning and Germline Intervention: U.S. Perspectives

By Marcy Darnovsky | 10.13.2003

Presentation at The Within and Beyond Human Nature conference, Berlin, Germany 

Unlike selective abortion and PGD, the reproductive genetic...

Human Cloning

CANADA CONSIDERS COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION ON ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 10.02.2003
The fate of Canadian legislation that would provide one of the world's most comprehensive regulatory frameworks for assisted reproduction and...