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

Rewriting the Human Genome

By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 02.12.2014
Over the last decade, as DNA-sequencing technology has grown ever faster and cheaper, our understanding of the human genome has...
Bioethics

Why Easy Stem Cells Raise Hard Ethical Questions

By Brendan Foht, The Public Discourse | 02.11.2014
Late last month, Haruko Obokata and her colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan reported that...
Bioethics

Google's Kurzweil Says the Machines will Think for Themselves by 2040, and oh — We'll be Immortal

By Jon Xavier, Silicon Valley Business Journal | 02.10.2014
Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil is, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished men of our time. The relentless inventor —...
A "Post-Human" Future?

Why Family Caregivers Should Care for their Families' Genetic Inheritance Data

By Dr. Gordon Atherley, Voice America | 02.10.2014
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society. Jeff Nisker, MD PhD FRCSC...
Bioethics

Questions Relating to 'Mitochondrial Replacement'

By Calum MacKellar, BioNews | 02.10.2014
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In his response (BioNews 738) to the article 'Should persons affected by mitochondrial disorders not be...

Bioethics

Let’s Keep the Door to Biotechnological Eugenics Closed

By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 02.10.2014
Remember the three-parent babies I told you about in December?  The ones made with genetic material from two different women? ...
Assisted Reproduction

Whole Genome Testing Used to Guide Breast Cancer Treatment

By Barbara Czub, BioNews | 02.10.2014

Whole genome testing has been used to guide tailored treatment against advanced breast cancer in a group of 43 patients...

Biotech & Pharma

The Great Indian Egg Bazaar

By Pritha Chatterjee and Mayura Janwalkar, The Indian Express | 02.09.2014
Among the registrations from 149 countries on http://www.surrogatefinder.com, a website offering free registration to egg and sperm donors, surrogate...
Other Countries