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

The stranded babies of Kyiv and the women who give birth for money

By Oksana Grytsenko, The Guardian | 06.15.2020

Some are crying in their cots; others are being cradled or bottle-fed by nannies. These newborns are not in the...

Assisted Reproduction

Hundreds of MSU professors, GEU call to remove VP of research Stephen Hsu

By Wendy Guzman, The State News | 06.15.2020

The Michigan State University Graduate Employees Union and its coalition partners in the STEM community are calling for MSU to...

Genomics

Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster

By Emily Mullin, OneZero | 06.15.2020

A team of scientists has used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to create genetically modified human embryos in a London lab...

Human Genetic Modification

Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912

For Scientific Institutions, Racial Reconciliation Requires Reparations

By C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American | 06.12.2020

^{Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912 (via wikipedia)}

Amidst protests and conversations on racism following...

Society

A Selective Amnesia – Sterilizing The History Of Genetics

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 06.12.2020

We may be in the midst of a critical historical turning point in social justice. The confluence of the Black...

Genomics

USC removes name of Rufus von KleinSmid, a eugenics leader, from prominent building

By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

With its soaring arches, international flags and globe-topped tower, the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs is one...

Society

The gene delusion

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

In February this year, the Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky was forced to resign when his incendiary comments on race...

Genomics

Biomedical studies are including more female subjects (finally)

By Bethany Brookshire, Science News | 06.09.2020

Biomedical science has historically been a male-dominated world — not just for the scientists, but also for their research subjects...

Bioethics