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

'Where Did I Come From?' Donor Eggs, Sperm and a Surrogate

By Anndee Hochman, The Inquirer | 10.17.2013
The first time Andrew Botwin said "Daddy," his mother gulped.

Was this the moment Shari Botwin had anguished about ever...
Bioethics

The Rise of Gender Selection among Middle Eastern Couples

By Rachel Williamson, Middle East Monitor | 10.17.2013
Sex selection is a dirty phrase in Western countries, but Middle Eastern couples are jumping on fertility technology as changing...
Other Countries

New DNA Test can Catch Elite Cheats

By Corey Allen, The University of British Columbia | 10.17.2013
Researchers develop easier, faster test to spot blood doping

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new...
Bioethics

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

The Killing Point

By Leigh Cowart, NSFWCorp | 10.16.2013
I first read “Man and Superman”, Malcolm Gladwell’s piece on performance-enhancing drugs, at two in the morning. Unable...
Media Coverage

Epigenetics: How to alter your genes

By Chris Bell, The Telegraph | 10.16.2013
Towards the end of the Second World War, something unprecedented happened in modern Europe: a famine. Operation Market Garden, the...
Biotech & Pharma