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

‘No Más Bebés’: Documentary Highlights History of Forced Sterilizations in L.A.

By Sonali Kolkhatkar, TruthDig | 01.21.2016
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A new documentary airing soon on PBS covers a grisly era of California history—the forced sterilization of untold...

Bioethics

Could DTC Genome Testing Exacerbate Research Inequities?

By Christine Aicardi, Maria Damjanovicova, Lorenzo Del Savio, Federica Lucivero, Maru Mormina, Maartje Niezen & Barbara Prainsack, The Hastings Center Report | 01.20.2016
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Editor’s note: This essay responds to an invitation (issued here and here) to submit commentaries on the...

Bioethics

Minor crimes could land your DNA in N.J. database

By S.P. Sullivan, NJ | 01.20.2016
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TRENTON — People convicted of many disorderly persons offenses in New Jersey will have their DNA added to...

Genomics

‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s Field Museum

By Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times | 01.20.2016
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For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field Museum’s “Races of Mankind” exhibit...

Racial Justice

Mexico's Booming Business of Producing Babies for Foreigners Is About To Go Bust

By Gabriela Gorbea, VICE News | 01.19.2016
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Geoff Moss thought he had found — in Mexico — the "ideal location" for his agency that offers childless...

Biopolitics

End of the 'Test Tube Baby' as New Technique Allows IVF Fertilisation in Womb

By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.19.2016
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The end of the ‘test tube baby’ could be in sight after British doctors launched a new form...

Biotech & Pharma

Down's Syndrome people risk 'extinction' at the hands of science, fear and ignorance

By Tim Stanley, The Telegraph | 01.18.2016
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A painting hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York called The Adoration of the Christ Child...

Assisted Reproduction

The Secret Lives of Egg Donors: The Strange Hell Women Go Through to Donate Their Eggs

By Colette Shade, VICE Broadly | 01.17.2016
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What will a young woman do for $8,000 dollars? Eight grand is the going rate on a healthy...

Biotech & Pharma