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

Compensation for forced sterilizations in California ends soon. Here’s how to apply

By Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times | 08.04.2023

After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or...

Eugenics

VA won’t pay for IVF for same-sex or unmarried couples, lawsuits allege

By Casey Parks, The Washington Post | 08.04.2023

A year before Ashley Sheffield left the military, she and her partner decided to try to have a child. The...

Policies

Gene Therapies For Eternal Youth

By Stav Dimitropoulos, proto.life | 08.03.2023

Imagine a not-so-distant future, when a 60-year-old man named John Doe goes to the doctor to replace a faulty gene...

Human Genetic Modification

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The Henrietta Lacks settlement is bigger than one family’s victory

By Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post | 08.02.2023

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Like many women, I...

Racial Justice

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The Gene Therapy 'Quagmire:' Multimillion- Dollar Costs and Untreated Patients with Rare Diseases

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.01.2023

Jason Mast is a former English teacher who now focuses on such things as multimillion-dollar gene therapies and whether they...

Stem Cells

FDA's Peter Marks says gene editing breakthroughs have met regulatory reality

By Max Bayer, Fierce Biotech | 07.31.2023

The FDA's Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., thinks gene editing—specifically base editing—could be a "game changer," but progress has been slow, likely due...

Assisted Reproduction