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

Reproductive Justice Advocates: Don’t Roll Back Sterilization Consent Rules

By Deborah Reid, RH Reality Check | 04.02.2014
Women of color created and defined the concept of reproductive justice, which is firmly rooted in a human rights...
Bioethics

Inconvenient Truths About Commercial Surrogacy

By Kathleen Sloan and Jennifer Lahl, Twin Cities | 04.01.2014
The Minnesota Senate and House are currently considering two separate bills to legalize commercial surrogacy in the state (S.F. 2627...
U.S. States

In Reversal, Genetics Group Says Patients Should Be Allowed to Refuse 'Incidental' Findings

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 04.01.2014
Apparently bowing to pressure from its members, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) says that patients should...
Bioethics

New Hope for Embattled STAP Cell Researchers?

By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times | 04.01.2014
Just hours after Japanese investigators announced findings of fabrication and misconduct in a highly criticized "acid bath" stem cell study...
Stem Cells

CRISPR Reverses Disease Symptoms in Living Animals for First Time

By GEN, Genetic Engineering News | 03.31.2014

MIT scientists report the use of a CRISPR methodology to cure mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a...

Genomics

South Dakota Governor Signs Sex-Selective Abortion Ban

By Teddy Wilson, RH Reality Check | 03.31.2014
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill Wednesday to punish any physician in the state who is found to...
Bioethics

A Sperm Donor, Uncertain of What It Is to Be ‘Bio-Dad’

By David Dodge, The New York Times | 03.31.2014
“But … I’m so short!”

This, unfortunately, will always be the first phrase out of my mouth after my good...
LGBTQI

We May Already Know How we Will Cure Death—But Should we?

By Christopher Mims, Quartz | 03.29.2014
A pair of advocates—they do legitimate research too, but their ardor is so intense, it’s hard to call them scientists—believe...
Synthetic Biology