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

America: Research and Reproductive Cloning

By Americans to Ban Cloning, Americans to Ban Cloning | 04.13.2002

Just last week, President Bush stated that he is opposed to both reproductive cloning, that is cloning with the goal...

Society

Coalition Urges a Ban on All Human Cloning

By Mary Leonard, The Boston Globe | 03.22.2002

WASHINGTON - Congress is facing mounting calls from some unexpected quarters to halt medical research involving human cloning.

Since the...

Biopolitics

Liberal Anti-Cloners Up to Bat

By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired | 03.19.2002
A group of self-proclaimed liberal, pro-choice leaders held a press conference Tuesday to influence the Senate's votes on an anti-cloning...
Biopolitics

No a la Clonación Humana

By Pedro F. Frisneda, Tiempos del Mundo | 03.07.2002

Primero fue la oveja Dolly, luego embriones humanos, y mas recientemente un gato* La clonación se ha convertido en uno...

Human Genetic Modification

Jack or Jill? The Era of Consumer-Driven Eugenics Has Begun

By Margaret Talbot, The Atlantic Monthly | 02.28.2002
There are things about one's life and especially about one's children that cannot be known in advance and to which...
Human Genetic Modification

Designer Babies: Human cloning is a long way off, but bioengineered kids are already here.

By Shannon Brownlee, The Washington Monthly | 02.28.2002
In the mid-1990s, embryologist Jacques Cohen pioneered a promising new technique for helping infertile women have children. His technique, known...
Genetic Selection

Cloning: U.N. Debate Centers On Total Ban Or Allowance For Research

By Jim Wurst, UN Wire | 02.28.2002

Delegates began talks this week on a convention banning human cloning, with general agreement that cloning to produce babies should...

Global Governance

America: Cloning

By Pew Research, Center for the People and the Press | 02.25.2002

Do you favor or oppose scientific experimentation on the cloning of human beings?
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Don't know / Refused
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Society