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
Darren Beattie, speaking

Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

By Gustaf Kilander, The Independent | 02.11.2025

"Darren Beattie speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona"
by...

Eugenics
ivf

Easing restrictions: Swiss Federal Council announces a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act

By Alice Margaria and Florina Markwalder, BioNews | 02.10.2025

On 30 January 2025, the Swiss Federal Council announced plans for a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act (RMA)...

Policies
Asilomar State Beach photograph

Asilomar Déjà Vu?

By Tina Stevens and Stuart A. Newman, A Bigger Conversation | 02.06.2025

Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash

In June 1971, Robert Pollack, a young researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, phoned...

Human Genetic Modification
a photo of Simone and Malcolm Collins

The couple who want to make America procreate again

By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

It's a...

Genetic Selection
egg donation graphic

Egg Donation: A Victory for Reproductive Justice or Another Handmaid’s Tale?

By Chantal Bittner, Bill of Health | 02.04.2025

One of the central topics of the election campaign was undoubtedly abortion—a key issue in the fight for reproductive justice...

Policies
a photo of a gloved hand handling a Petri dish in a laboratory

CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says

By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid, Reuters | 02.03.2025

Photo by Drew Hays on Unsplash

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers...

Bioethics
stem cell

Stem cell companies and co-founders lose multi-million dollar lawsuit

By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 02.03.2025

Following a lengthy litigation, the co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America and related companies have been prohibited from...

Policies
graphic of DNA

Taking responsibility: Asilomar and its legacy

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Science | 01.30.2025

In February 1975, leading molecular biologists gathered at the Asilomar conference center on the California coast to evaluate risks of...

Genomics