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

IBM CEO: Watson Health is ‘Our Moonshot’ in Healthcare

By Greg Slabodkin, Health Data Management | 04.20.2015
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A new IBM business unit launched last week to help physicians, researchers, insurers and patients use big data...

Technologies

IBM CEO: Watson Health is ‘Our Moonshot’ in Healthcare

By Greg Slabodkin, Health Data Management | 04.20.2015
Untitled Document

A new IBM business unit launched last week to help physicians, researchers, insurers and patients use big data...

Technologies

German regulator puts UniQure gene therapy appraisal on hold

By Ludwig Burger, Reuters | 04.17.2015
(Reuters) - A German regulator for new drugs has suspended the assessment of the Western world's first gene therapy, UniQure's...
Human Genetic Modification

Commercial Surrogacy Should be Legalised, Family Court Chief Justice Diana Bryant Says

By Bridget Brennan, ABC [Australia] | 04.17.2015
Untitled Document

In a wide-ranging speech in Brisbane last night, Justice Diana Bryant told journalists that current laws were driving...

Technologies

Commercial Surrogacy Should be Legalised, Family Court Chief Justice Diana Bryant Says

By Bridget Brennan, ABC [Australia] | 04.17.2015
Untitled Document

In a wide-ranging speech in Brisbane last night, Justice Diana Bryant told journalists that current laws were driving...

Global Governance

Journalist Tells Sad History of NC Eugenics Program

By John Drescher, News & Observer | 04.17.2015
Untitled Document

John Railey was part of a team of reporters at the Winston-Salem Journal who in 2002 revealed the...

Racial Justice

CRISPR Patent Fight Now a Winner-Take-All Match

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.15.2015
Untitled Document

In a legal maneuver with billion-dollar implications, the University of California has asked the U.S. Patent & Trademark...

Genomics

Personalizing Cancer Treatment With Genetic Tests Can Be Tricky

By Richard Harris, National Public Radio | 04.15.2015
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It's becoming routine for cancer doctors to order a detailed genetic test of a patient's tumor to help...

Biotech & Pharma