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

Researchers launch plan to sequence 66,000 species in the United Kingdom. But that’s just a start

By Erik Stokstad, Science | 11.01.2018

LONDON—In the first attempt of its kind, researchers plan to sequence all known species of eukaryotic life—66,000 species of...

Animal Biotechnologies

Regulators just gave DNA-testing startup 23andMe the go-ahead to offer a health product that scientists have called dubious

By Erin Brodwin , Business Insider | 11.01.2018

Anne Wojcicki, the CEO and founder of the popular Silicon Valley gene-testing company 23andMe, said in mid-October that she didn't...

Genomics

Government using ancestry websites to deport immigrants: lawyer, court documents

By Emanuela Campanella, Global News [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 11.01.2018

The Canadian Border Services Agency is collecting the DNA of immigrants and using ancestry websites to find long-lost family members...

Genomics

Treating ‘genetic privacy’ like it’s just one thing keeps us from understanding people’s concerns

By Angela Chen, The Verge | 10.31.2018

“Genetic privacy” is a complicated concept, and a new study finds that decoding how people feel about the idea is...

Genomics

He Promised to Restore Damaged Hearts. Harvard Says His Lab Fabricated Research.

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.29.2018

For Dr. Piero Anversa, the fall from scientific grace has been long, and the landing hard.

Researchers worldwide once hailed...

Stem Cells

Blue, pink and white transgender flag flying

Trump’s Anti-Trans Memo Opens Door to Escalating State Surveillance

By Christoph Hanssmann, TruthOut | 10.27.2018

The Trump administration’s proposed scheme to redefine sex as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth” is not...

U.S. Federal

Use the patent system to regulate gene editing

By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 10.23.2018

Next month, researchers, policymakers, ethicists and social scientists will meet in Hong Kong for the second International Summit on Human...

Policies

Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics

By Nathaniel Comfort, MIT Technology Review | 10.23.2018

Want to predict aggression? Neuroticism? Risk aversion? Authoritarianism? Academic achievement? This is the latest promise from the burgeoning field of...