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

Sex Selection: New Technologies, New Forms of Gender Discrimination

By Rajani Bhatia, Rupsa Mallik, and Shamita Das Dasgupta | 10.01.2003

With the advent of reproductive technologies that made it possible to detect the sex of a fetus developing in a...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sex Selection Goes Mainstream

By Marcy Darnovsky, Alternet | 09.25.2003

Several times over the past few months, a small but striking ad from a Virginia-based fertility clinic has appeared in...

Media Coverage

Of Sheep and Men

By Koichiro Matsuura, The Daily Star | 09.16.2003
Dolly is dead. The most famous sheep in the world, also the first mammal to be cloned from an adult...
Global Governance

Breeding Only the Best

By Tony Platt, Los Angeles Times | 09.07.2003

Nancy Ordover, American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism
University of Minnesota Press: 240 pp., $18.95 paper...

Human Genetic Modification

America: Reproductive and Research Cloning, Genetic Modification, Genetic Selection, Gene Therapy

By Viginia Commonwealth University, Viginia Commonwealth University | 09.03.2003

How much do you favor or oppose...

 

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Society

Professor's probe of sterilizations finds relevance in modern science

By Stephen Watson, Buffalo News | 09.01.2003
It's been 50 years, but one sentence in a Supreme Court decision that Julius Paul read during a class in...
Eugenics

Sex Selection Moves to Consumer Culture

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 08.20.2003

Several times over the past few months, a small but striking ad from a Virginia-based fertility clinic has appeared in...

Media Coverage

Gene Therapy Used to Treat Patients With Parkinson's

By Denise Grady and Gina Kolata, New York Times | 08.19.2003

"Do I have a hard head?" asked Nathan Klein. "My wife always says I have a hard head."

"No, it's...

Human Genetic Modification