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’s happening in Xinjiang is genocide

By Editorial Board, Washington Post | 07.06.2020

WHAT HAS been known until now about China’s persecution of the Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang province has focused...

Other Countries

Pregnant Women Have Received False Results From This DNA Paternity Test

By Peter Aldhous, Buzzfeed News | 07.05.2020

Yuliana Ramírez learned she was pregnant in December 2016, about a month after splitting up from her boyfriend, Luis Diego...

Genomics

NGOs call for moratorium on controversial ‘gene drive organisms’

By Natasha Foote, EURACTIV.com | 07.03.2020

After over 78 environmental and agricultural organisations signed a letter this week calling for a moratorium on gene drive technology...

Animal Biotechnologies

The need to unpack vulnerability in a pandemic

By Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, The BMJ Opinion Blog | 07.03.2020

As the covid-19 pandemic continues to progress across the world, the concept of vulnerability echoes throughout various social and political...

Amid protests against racism, scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more

By Eli Cahan, Science | 07.02.2020

^{The former Watson School of Biological Sciences has changed its name.}

For Earyn McGee, terminology matters.

McGee, a herpetologist, studies...

On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities

By Rhea W. Boyd, Edwin G. Lindo, Lachelle D. Weeks, Monica R. McLemore, Health Affairs Blog | 07.02.2020

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the...

Bioethics

Belly of the Beast: California’s dark history of forced sterilizations

By Shilpa Jindia, The Guardian | 06.30.2020

A new documentary film is shedding light on forced sterilizations in California, reviving a dark chapter in the state’s history...

Society

The Future of Bioethics: It Shouldn't Take a Pandemic

By Larry R. Churchill Nancy M. P. King Gail E. Henderson, Hastings Center Report | 06.29.2020

Abstract

The Covid‐19 pandemic has concentrated bioethics attention on the “lifeboat ethics” of rationing and fair allocation of scarce medical...