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

Health Chiefs Plan to Ban Adverts for Overseas Baby Sex-Selection Trips

By Christy Choi, South China Morning Post | 10.20.2013
Health chiefs are set to slap an advertising ban on Hong Kong businesses that offer medical tourism packages for the...
Other Countries

What’s That Smell? Exotic Scents Made From Re-engineered Yeast

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.20.2013
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Vanilla, saffron, patchouli. For centuries, spices and flavorings like these have come from exotic plants growing in...
Global Governance

How Science Goes Wrong

By The Economist, The Economist | 10.19.2013

A SIMPLE idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but...

Biopolitics

School Achievement Isn't Just in Your Genes

By Steven Rose, New Scientist | 10.18.2013
Is intelligence genetically determined? You might think so, if you saw the headline-grabbing report from UK education advisor Dominic Cummings...
Media Coverage

Five-Minute IVF is Better and Cheaper, Say Experts Scientists

By Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph | 10.17.2013
Scientists said the treatment offered particular hope for older women and could be performed with none of the side-effects associated...
Biotech & Pharma

Decades Later, Condemnation for a Skid Row Cancer Study

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.17.2013
A medical researcher from Columbia University, Dr. Perry Hudson, made the skid row alcoholics in Lower Manhattan an offer: If...
Human Rights

Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.17.2013
A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that the standard language of life no longer applies. Instead, one of...
Biotech & Pharma

More Young Women Serving as Egg Donors, Report Says

By Melissa Dahl, Today | 10.17.2013
More young women than ever are donating their eggs to help other people become parents, according to a new report...
Bioethics