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

Donated IVF Eggs Linked to Gestational Hypertension

By Mitchel L. Zoler, Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network | 07.08.2014
MUNICH – Women pregnant with an embryo produced by in vitro fertilization of a donated egg developed gestational hypertension at...
Assisted Reproduction

Biotech Reels Over Patent Ruling

By Erika Check-Hayden, Nature News | 07.08.2014
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Guidelines that forbid patents on a wide array of natural products, phenomena and principles have many in the...

Biotech & Pharma

What-Syn-a-Name?

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian | 07.08.2014
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He was looking quite lost. An eminent scientist and UN delegate was stumbling over the meaning of a...

Biopolitics

Would-Be Parents Fleeced, Surrogates Abandoned by Mexican Surrogacy Operation Planet Hospital

By Jane Cowan and Bronwen Reed, ABC [Australia] | 07.08.2014
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An unscrupulous surrogacy operation in Mexico has left clients thousands of dollars out of pocket, and dozens of...

Global Governance

Stem Cell Treatment Causes Nasal Growth in Woman's Back

By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 07.08.2014
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A woman in the US has developed a tumour-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to...

Stem Cells

Former CEO of California Stem Cell Agency Named to Board of Firm that Received $19 Million From the Agency

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.07.2014
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Alan Trounson, the former president of the $3 billion California stem cell agency, today was named to...
Stem Cells

Seedy Tale: Chinese Researchers Stole Patented Corn, U.S. Prosecutors Allege

By Mara Hvistendahl, Science | 07.07.2014
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The court documents read like something out of a Coen brothers film. Employees of the Chinese agricultural company...

Other Countries

Scientists Threaten to Boycott €1.2bn Human Brain Project

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 07.06.2014
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The world's largest project to unravel the mysteries of the human brain has been thrown into crisis with...

Biopolitics