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

Experts Provide Much-Needed Policy Analysis for Clinical Integration of Next Generation Sequencing

By Glenna Picton, Baylor College of Medicine News | 09.22.2014
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As genetic sequencing technologies continue to evolve rapidly, becoming part of clinical care, there is a critical need...

Global Governance

South African Egg Donor Sent to India, Realizes Agency is Scamming Recipients

By Miranda Ward, We Are Egg Donors | 09.22.2014
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Martene is a South African egg donor and a member of We Are Egg Donors. She is an active...

Global Governance

The Story of 10 Couples Who Fought Costa Rica’s Ban on in Vitro Fertilization

By Johanna Torres, The Costarican Times [Costa Rica] | 09.21.2014
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Andrea, a Costa Rican mother, stands in court before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C...

Bioethics

Interview: The Global Trade in Reproduction

By Carmel Shalev, BioEdge | 09.20.2014
Untitled Document Dr Carmel Shalev, of Israel’s Haifa University, is organising a session on helpful and harmful practices in the...
Assisted Reproduction

Fertility Clinics: What the Law Says

By Laignee Barron, The Phnom Penh Post | 09.20.2014
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In most instances, the practice of assisted reproductive technologies comes before the legal regulations are enshrined, and Cambodia...

Global Governance

Is Modern Technology Killing Us?

By Erica Etelson, Truthout | 09.19.2014
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"Science now makes all things possible . . . but it does not thereby make all possible things...

Biotech & Pharma

A New Generation of GMOs

By Josie Garthwaite, Ensia | 09.18.2014
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Thousands of researchers will descend on Boston this fall for an event billed as the world’s largest gathering...

Genetic Selection

Three-Parent Babies: It's More Messy Than we Thought

By Editorial, New Scientist | 09.18.2014
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IN A few weeks, the UK is set to decide whether to become the first country to allow...

Genomics