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

There’s a Gene for That

By Pankaj Mehta, Jacobin | 01.18.2014

If you want to understand why humans wage wars, there is a gene for that. Want to understand why men...

Genomics

Google, Tell Me. Is My Son a Genius?

By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times | 01.18.2014
MORE than a decade into the 21st century, we would like to think that American parents have similar standards and...
Genetic Selection

The FDA Is Not Anti-Genetics

By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 01.17.2014
When the FDA shut down biotech company 23andMe’s direct-to-consumer Personal Genome Service, many in the biotech community worried that the...
Biotech & Pharma

FDA approves genetic test that screens infants for predictors of mental disabilities

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 01.17.2014

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared a first-of-a-kind blood test that can help diagnose mental disabilities...

Genomics

The UK's Deplorable Witch Hunt Against Asian Women

By Marge Berer, RH Reality Check | 01.16.2014
If you are concerned about gender discrimination – that is, discrimination against girls and women – what would you do...
Genetic Selection

Could Glow-in-the-Dark Tobacco Plants Light Up the Living Rooms of the Future?

By Kristin Hohenadel, Slate | 01.15.2014

Glowing plants - as seen in the seemingly fantastical flora of the 2009 film Avatar - are no longer just...

Genomics

Illegal abortion of female foetuses by some ethnic groups who favour sons has reduced female population

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.15.2014

Sex selection abortions are taking place in some ethnic communities in Britain and the practice is so widespread it has...

Genetic Selection

Cloning comeback

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 01.14.2014

The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation nestles on a wooded hillside in Guro, a district on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul...

Stem Cells