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

The Threshold Challenge of the New Human Genetic Technologies

By admin | 03.01.2003

The Current Policy Landscape

Towards an International Policy...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Twist and Shout!

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 02.25.2003

Helen Polson clasped her hands together, excited, as she took in an exhibit at an art show focused on genetics...

Arts & Culture

The Weapons of Mass Creation

By Caroline S. Wagner, Los Angleles Times | 02.13.2003

Without providing a shred of evidence, the Raelian cult made headlines with sensational claims of creating cloned babies. Far less...

Human Cloning

Scientists Swap Genes in Human Stem Cells

By Associated Press, (as published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) | 02.10.2003

Madison scientists have found a way to swap genes in and out of human embryonic stem cells, a milestone in...

America: Cloning

By LA Times, Los Angeles Times | 01.30.2003

Which of these statements comes closest to your view on human cloning?

I support a complete ban on all research...

Society

Letter to HFEA on Sex Selection

By Tania Simoncelli and Marcy Darnovsky | 01.22.2003

Vishnee Seenundun
Consultation Co-ordinator
HFEA
Paxton House
30 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS

Dear Vishnee Seenundun,

We are writing to...

Genetic Selection

Gene Therapy Trials Halted

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.15.2003

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday suspended 27 gene therapy trials involving several hundred patients after learning that a second...

America: Research and Reproductive Cloning

By Gallup, Gallup | 01.13.2003

As you may know, Congress is considering several proposals to ban human cloning. Which of the following positions do you...

Public Opinion