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

Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 02.03.2014
Her first thought after she heard the news, after she screamed and made her mother and boyfriend leave the room...
Genomics

Ireland Publishes Draft Surrogacy Legislation

By Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews | 02.03.2014

Untitled Document The Irish Government has agreed to put forward proposals for a wide-ranging bill that features provisions on surrogacy...

Other Countries

Global Patent War Looms With Epoch-Making Discovery of STAP Cells

By Tatsuyuki Kobori and Akiyoshi Abe, The Asahi Shimbun | 02.03.2014
Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata's recent breakthrough in the creation of pluripotent stem cells in mice is set to trigger an...
Biopolitics

The Baby-Making Business: on the front lines of Toronto’s booming, semi-legal surrogacy market

By Alison Motluk, Toronto Life | 02.03.2014
Cindy Wasser’s first date with Chris Blake, the man who would become her husband, was a disaster. He tripped on...
Other Countries

Poll Shows We Want Those DNA Breakthroughs But Worry Scientists May Be 'Playing God'

By Emily Swanson, Huffington Post | 02.02.2014
Most Americans are excited about the possibility of scientific breakthroughs brought by DNA research, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But...
Bioethics

On Race and Medicine

By Keith Norris, The Scientist | 02.01.2014
Clinical trials were traditionally conducted using predominately white male subjects. However, the 1993 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act...
Biopolitics

Why we Should Opt Out of the Government's New Patient Database

By Edward Hockings, The Guardian | 01.31.2014
We have until March to opt out of the care.data initiative. The ‘theoretical risk’ that we might be...
Bioethics

Kercher Trial: How Does DNA Contamination Occur?

By Melissa Hogenboom, BBC | 01.30.2014
Potential for the contamination of forensic DNA evidence has been highlighted by the Meredith Kercher murder trial. But just how...
Bioethics