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

What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?

By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

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Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...

Civil Society

Prince George’s will use DNA registries to solve cold cases through new DOJ grant

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...

Policies

False Labor

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...

Assisted Reproduction

ICE is deporting women at Irwin amid criminal investigation into Georgia doctor

By Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times | 11.18.2020

Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...

U.S. Federal

The Last Children of Down Syndrome

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.18.2020

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Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a...

Genetic Selection

Resisting the rise of facial recognition

By Antoaneta Roussi, Nature | 11.18.2020

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In Belgrade’s Republic Square, dome-shaped cameras hang prominently on wall fixtures, silently scanning people...

Policies

Marie Stopes UK Finally Changes Name To Cut Ties With Eugenicist

By Rachel Moss, HuffPost | 11.17.2020

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The UK’s largest abortion provider...

Abortion provider changes name over Marie Stopes eugenics link

By News, BBC | 11.17.2020

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Society