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

Ending Discrimination in Surrogacy Laws

By Anil Malhotra, The Hindu | 05.03.2014
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Recent meetings on March 6 and 7 of departments and ministries of the Government of India, to discuss...

Other Countries

US Paediatrician Attacks Surrogacy

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 05.03.2014
Supporters of surrogacy often claim that on the whole, women in developing countries benefit from the system, as they earn...
Bioethics

Hidden Clinical Trial Data about Lupron

By Lynne Millican, Impact Ethics | 05.02.2014

In 1989, I received a prescription for the drug Lupron from a world-renowned Boston hospital for treatment of endometriosis and...

Assisted Reproduction

Your Genes Are Obsolete

By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 05.02.2014

Today, DNA is central to modern biology, but scarcely a century ago biologists were debating whether or not genes actually...

Public Opinion

State Stem Cell Agency Hasn't Lived up to its Hype

By Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.02.2014
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has funded more than 1,750 published discoveries related to stem cell research...
Biotech & Pharma

Advancing the Disability Rights Perspective on Bioethics Issues

By Diane Coleman, Not Dead Yet | 05.02.2014
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Months of work came to fruition on April 25-26, 2014 at the Crystal City Marriott in Arlington, VA. ...

Genomics

Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence Looks at the Implications of Artificial Intelligence - But are we Taking AI Seriously Enough?'

By Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, The Independent | 05.01.2014

With the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence playing in cinemas, with Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman showcasing clashing visions for the future...

Bioethics

'Provocative' Research Turns Skin Cells Into Sperm

By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.01.2014

Scientists reported Thursday they had figured out a way to make primitive human sperm out of skin cells, an advance...

Biotech & Pharma