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

First Monkeys with Customized Mutations Born

By Helen Shen, Nature | 01.30.2014
The ultimate potential of precision gene-editing techniques is beginning to be realised. Today, researchers in China report the first monkeys...
Assisted Reproduction

Stem Cell Timeline: The History of a Medical Sensation

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 01.30.2014
Stem cells are the cellular putty from which all tissues of the body are made. Ever since human embryonic stem...
Biopolitics

Stanford Consortium Wins $40 Million to Create Stem Cell Genomics Center

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 01.29.2014
Directors of the California stem cell agency today approved a $40 million proposal ultimately targeted at creating medical treatments tailored...
Biopolitics

Should we Cut Back on IVF?

By Lara Salahi, The Boston Globe | 01.29.2014
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has given about 5 percent of couples who suffer from infertility a shot at parenthood. But...
Biotech & Pharma

Genetic Determinism: Why we Never Learn — And Why it Matters

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 01.29.2014
Here it is, 2014, and we have “Is the will to work out genetically determined?,” by Bruce Grierson...
Biopolitics

Study Says New Method Could Be a Quicker Source of Stem Cells

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.29.2014
A surprising study has found that a simple acid bath might turn cells in the body into stem cells that...
Bioethics

Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Reopen Clone Wars

By Editorial, New Scientist | 01.29.2014
It didn't take long after Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 for maverick scientists to start talking about cloning...
Bioethics

Whistle-Blower Breaks his Silence

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.28.2014
The whistle-blower who played a key part in exposing the fraud of South Korean cloning specialist Woo Suk Hwang has...
Other Countries