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

The Market For DNA Sequencing-Based Down Syndrome Tests Could Exceed $6 Billion

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 02.28.2014
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test...
Bioethics

Canadian Fashion Mogul Nygard Puts his Faith in Stem-Cell Science

By Patrick White, The Globe and Mail | 02.28.2014
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

Martin Luther King pioneered civil rights in America.

Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration...
Public Opinion

Stillbirths and Infant Health Risks Higher in California’s Artificially Conceived Infants

By Miriam Zoll, Reporting on Health | 02.28.2014
A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that in California from 2009-2011...
Biotech & Pharma

The Mammoth Cometh

By Nathaniel Rich, The New York Times | 02.27.2014
The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless...
Synthetic Biology

Stem cell scientist gets suspended prison term

By Nam Hyun-woo, Korea Times | 02.27.2014
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld a suspended jail term of one year and six months for two years issued to...
Human Cloning

U.K. Government Proposes Rules to Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos'

By Gretchen Vogel, Science Insider | 02.27.2014
The U.K. government today issued proposed regulations that would allow researchers to try a new and controversial in vitro fertilization...
Bioethics

FDA Weighs Unknowns of 3-Person Embryo Fertilization

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 02.26.2014
WASHINGTON — Genetic experts cautioned that it could take decades to confirm the safety of an experimental technique, meant to...
Assisted Reproduction

The New Science Of Three-Parent Babies

By Tom Ashbrook, NPR On Point | 02.26.2014

Day two today of F.D.A. hearings on what you may have seen described in headlines as “three-parent babies.”  The genetic...

Assisted Reproduction