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

Should Persons Affected by Mitochondrial Disorders Not be Brought Into Existence?

By Professor Calum MacKellar, BioNews | 01.06.2014

Untitled Document In their article entitled Is mitochondrial replacement therapy eugenic and incompatible with human dignity? in BioNews 733, John...

Bioethics

Gene Patent Case Fuels U.S. Court Test of Stem Cell Right

By Susan Decker, Bloomberg | 01.05.2014
As scientists get closer to using embryonic stem cells in new treatments for blindness, spinal cord injuries and heart disease...
Stem Cells

The Truth About Egg Donation

By Jen Dziura, The Gloss | 01.03.2014
I donated eggs — to gay men, through an agency, in exchange for money — twice in my twenties. At...
Bioethics

I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results

By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 12.30.2013
I like to plan ahead; that much I knew about myself before I plunged into exploring my genetic code. I’m...
Genomics

An Ethics for the Future of Genetic Testing

By Sara Hendren, The Atlantic | 12.30.2013
The available prenatal testing technologies for expectant parents are constantly changing in dramatic and subtle ways, and 2013 saw its...
Biotech & Pharma

New Finding Has Major Implications for Genetic Testing as Researchers Learn that Greater Numbers of Humans Have Multiple Personal Genomes

By Pamela Scherer, Dark Daily | 12.30.2013
Here is a human genome curve ball for pathologists and clinical laboratory scientists engaged in genetic testing in their medical...
Genomics

The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor

By Michael B. Katz, Social Work and Society International Online Journal | 12.24.2013
. . . if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our...
Bioethics

CRISPRs Enlisted to Study Mutations Across an Entire Mammalian Genome

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.24.2013

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have developed a technique to create a comprehensive library of mutations across all...

Animal Biotechnologies