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: Cloning research

By Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Pew Research Center for People and the Press | 08.27.1998

	Strongly favor	Favor	Oppose	Strongly oppose	Don't know / refused
Restricting scientific research on human cloning	27	18...

Society

America: Cloning

By Penn, Schoen, and Berland Associates , Gallup | 07.01.1998

asked about the government's role in cloning

should ban human cloning forever

take a wait-and-see attitude

allow research on...

Society

Germline Gene Therapy Contemplated

By Jeffrey Fox, Nature Biotechnology | 05.01.1998

Vol. 16, No. 5, May 1998

A group of leading academic scientists met early this spring at the University of...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Breaking the Richard Seed Story: Must It Now Be Fixed?

By Jim Kling, BioMedNet | 04.17.1998

In March 1997, the world learned that it may be possible to produce a cloned individual from an adult mammal...

Human Cloning

Problems of Germline Therapy

By Anne McLaren and Jonathan Ewbank, Nature | 04.16.1998

Vol. 392, April 16, 1998

Sir-You recently published a full-page report of a Californian symposium on germline gene therapy, and...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Canada: Reproductive and Research Cloning

By CTV / Angus Reid, CTV / Angus Reid | 02.01.1998

	Agree	Disagree	Don't Know
I fear that cloning human beings will be used wrongly by people who only want...

Other Countries

America: Human and Animal Reproductive Cloning

By Fox News, Fox News | 01.21.1998

As you may know, scientists have made advances in cloning, where they can reproduce a whole animal from a single...

Society

America: Reproductive Cloning

By Yankelovich Partners, Yankelovich Partners | 01.01.1998

Do you approve or disapprove of the use of cloning for each of the following purposes?

good idea / yes...

Society