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

US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data

By Richard Van Noorden, Nature News | 09.01.2014

Scientists who work on genomics and are funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) must post their data...

Bioethics

‘Can you clone that?’ Putin has close encounter with mammoth Dima in Russia’s Far East

By Russia Today, Russia Today | 09.01.2014

Upon meeting a 28,000-year-old mammoth mummy in a museum in the Russian Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin wondered if...

Genomics

Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic—And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back

By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 08.31.2014
People coming to the zoo to see the last passenger pigeon were disappointed by the bird, which barely budged off...
Genomics

Judge warns privacy of DNA at stake after ruling

By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun | 08.30.2014
As the state's highest court upheld this week a Harford County rape conviction based on DNA collected from the arm...
Genomics

Stem cell industry's 'huge development' in Bay Area

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.29.2014

Almost three years after a Bay Area company shut down the world's first clinical trial of a therapy using embryonic...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem cell therapy a primitive art

By Jill Margo, Financial Review | 08.27.2014
Stem cell therapy can be a rough art. That it has only been proven effective for some blood and immune...
Biotech & Pharma

Using Light Technique, Scientists Find Dimmer Switch for Memories in Mice

By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 08.27.2014
Memories and the feelings associated with them are not set in stone. You may have happy memories about your family’s...
Bioethics

Thailand’s Business in Paid Surrogates May Be Foundering in a Moral Quagmire

By Thomas Frank, The New York Times | 08.26.2014
PAK OK, Thailand — Soon after the first surrogate mother from this remote village gave birth, neighbors noticed her new...
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