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

MacArthur Grant Sheds Light on Reproductive Technologies

By Elayne Clift, Sentinel Source | 09.18.2014

A couple has had miscarriages, considered in-vitro fertilization, discussed adoption and finally opted for a surrogate to bear their baby...

Biopolitics

Under the Skin

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.18.2014
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade
Penguin: 2014.
ISBN: 978-1594204463

Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in...
Bioethics

Surrogates and Couples Face a Maze of Laws, State by State

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 09.17.2014

When Crystal Kelley, a Connecticut woman who had signed a contract to bear a baby for a couple in her...

Assisted Reproduction

If We Create Life, Who Will Control It?

By Marcelo Gleiser, NPR | 09.17.2014
Perhaps I shouldn't have used a conditional in the title. After all, we are already creating life.

Recently, Craig Venter...
Global Governance

On the Irreversibility of Gene Drives

By Noam Prywes, The Scientist | 09.16.2014
In 2008 it was proposed to the Geological Society of London that we had entered a new geological era, the...
Global Governance

Risks of Twins, Triplets May Prompt IVF Patients to Opt for Singletons

By Alan Zarembo, The Los Angeles Times | 09.16.2014

A new study bolsters the argument that fertility doctors should transfer just one embryo at a time when they are...

Biotech & Pharma

Arizona GOP Official Resigns After Controversial Comments

By Sean Sullivan, Washington Post | 09.15.2014
Untitled Document

Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce resigned as first vice chairman of the state Republican Party Sunday after...

Bioethics

Defending Human Dignity

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.13.2014
Untitled Document

English barrister and medical ethicist Charles Foster has penned defence of “human dignity” as the foundation of bioethics...

Civil Society