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 Genetic Bill of Rights

By The Board of Directors of the Council for Responsible Genetics, Council for Responsible Genetics | 11.30.1999
PREAMBLE

Our life and health depend on an intricate web of relationships within the biological and social worlds. Protection of...

Human Rights

The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans

By Marcy Darnovsky, Different Takes (Spring 2000) | 11.30.1999

Published by the Hampshire College Population and Development Program

At the cusp of dot-com frenzy and the biotech century, a...

A "Post-Human" Future?

United Kingdom: Cloning Human Cells

By Novartis, Novartis | 09.08.1999

Which, if any, of the following do you support and which do you oppose?
Support
Oppose

Don't know
Cloning and...
Society

Australia: Genetic Modification, Embryo Testing

By Biotechnology Australia, Biotechnology Australia | 09.08.1999

Genetic modification of human cells is...
Yes
No
acceptable
51
41
beneficial
65
27
Testing embryos for predisposition to disease...
Other Countries

Women outraged over drug's ill effects

By Kay Lazar, Boston Herald | 08.24.1999

At least a dozen women yesterday from around Greater Boston said they were angry to learn that a drug they...

Biotech & Pharma

Women seek answers on drugs suspected side effects

By Kay Lazar, Boston Herald | 08.23.1999

Second in a two-part series.

Hundreds of women nationwide, with nowhere else to turn, are forging a campaign against a...

Biotech & Pharma

Medical miracle turns nightmare - Wonder drug for men alleged to cause harm in women

By Kay Lazar, Boston Herald | 08.22.1999

First in a two part series

Something strange happened to Susan Hayward while taking a drug called Lupron for a...

Assisted Reproduction

America: Cloning research

By Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Pew Research Center for People and the Press | 07.14.1999
  Strongly favor Favor Oppose Strongly oppose
Restricting scientific research on human cloning  19 20 24 33
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Society