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

Can They Rebuild Us?

By Peter Aldhous , Nature | 04.05.2001

Peter Aldhous is Nature's chief News and Features editor.

The idea of therapeutic cloning, which offers the potential of growing...

Stem Cells

Don't Clone Humans!

By Rudolf Jaenisch and Ian Wilmut, Science | 03.30.2001
The successes in animal cloning suggest to some that the technology has matured sufficiently to justify its application to human...
Animal Biotechnologies

America: Cloning

By Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press | 03.05.2001

Now I am going to read you a list of some programs and proposals that are being discussed in this...

Society

America: Animal and Human Cloning

By Time/CNN, Time/CNN | 02.07.2001

 
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Do you think it is a good idea or a bad...
Society

Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies and "Choice"

By Ruth Hubbard, GeneWatch | 12.31.2000
Volume 14 Number 1
January 2001

The term eugenics, meaning "wellborn," was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, the scion...

Eugenics

The Case Against Designer Babies

By Marcy Darnovsky, Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, edited by Brian Tokar, New York: Zed Books, 2001 | 11.30.2000

(in Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, edited by Brian Tokar, New York: Zed Books, 2001)

"Life...

Biopolitics

The Quiet Campaign for Genetically Engineered Humans

By Richard Hayes, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2001 | 11.30.2000

We are fast approaching the most consequential technological threshold in all of human history: the ability to directly manipulate the...

Eugenics

Scotland: "Designer Babies," Genetic Modification

By System Three, System Three | 10.01.2000
 
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Society