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...

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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...

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What next for human gene therapy?

By Eric T. Juengst, British Medical Journal | 06.28.2003

The high hope of genetic medicine for 30 years has been to develop a way of using recombinant DNA techniques...

Bioethics

21st Century Eugenics

By Jesse Reynolds, TomPaine.com | 06.26.2003

If you've opened a newspaper or magazine recently, you've probably seen splashy ads for Botox, as part of a new...

Eugenics

Ethical Issues in New Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

By Edgar Dahl, Human Reproduction | 06.01.2003

Vol.18, No. 7

[Editor's note: In this brief article, German bioethicist Edgar Dahl raises and dismisses five objections...

LGBTQI

James Watson Wants to Build a Better Human

By Ralph Brave, AlterNet.org | 05.28.2003

Did you have a nice DNA Day? And how was your Human Genome Month?

If you missed those Congressionally-designated celebrations...

A "Post-Human" Future?

America: Human and Animal Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.05.2003

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

Society

America: Reproductive Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.03.2003

Cloning designed specifically to produce a child should be...	Legal	Illegal
General population	11	86
- Men	15	-
-...

Society

Too Clever Too Fast Too Happy

By Bill McKibben, The Guardian | 05.03.2003

For the first few miles of the marathon, I was still fresh enough to look around, to pay attention. I...

Bioethics

Human beings, as currently constituted, are good enough

By Ralph Brave, Salon | 04.30.2003

Bill McKibben, author of the renowned book The End of Nature, has a new concern: the end of human...