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...

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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...

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23andMe to go public via Richard Branson’s SPAC

By Casey Ross, STAT | 02.04.2021

The genetics testing company 23andMe will enter the public markets via a special purpose acquisition corporation sponsored by Virgin Group...

Society

Clinicians fear NFL's concussion settlement program protocols discriminate against Black players

By Pete Madden, Cho Park, and Ryan Smith, ABCNews | 02.03.2021

The NFL insists that its concussion settlement program does not require the clinicians who evaluate former players for payouts to...

A Biotechnology Crossroads

By Becca Muir, Science for the People | 02.01.2021

Before Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman wrote Biotech Juggernaut, Newman helped Stevens fight legal action from an unexpectedly powerful...

Stem Cells

Egg freezing is on the up – but new research raises questions about how clinics advertise

By Zeynep Gurtin | 02.01.2021

More women in the UK than ever before are considering freezing their eggs, with the sharp rise in inquiries at...

Assisted Reproduction

China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese military

By Kristy Needham, Reuters | 01.30.2021

SYDNEY (Reuters) - BGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company, has worked with China’s military on research that ranges from...

U.S. Federal

Why Biden needs to make genetic data privacy a top priority

By Robert I. Field, Anthony W. Orlando, and Arnold J. Rosoff, Philadelphia Inquirer | 01.28.2021

At this very moment, someone, somewhere, might be exposing your intimate genetic data. They probably don’t realize they’re doing it...

Policies

Runaway Biology: A Call for Conscientious Genome Editing with CRISPR

By Søren Hough, SFTP | 01.28.2021

By 2018, it was clear that CRISPR had spun out of control. In the United States, one biotech company managed...

Human Genetic Modification

Is Your DNA Data Safe in Blackstone’s Hands?

By Matthew Ponsford, Neo.Life | 01.28.2021

We’re beginning to get a picture of the people who might have a goldmine in their genome.

The paradox of...

Genomics