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

Unlicensed Doctor who 'Sold Hope to Patients who had None' Sentenced

By Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal | 09.24.2013
Alfred Sapse, an unlicensed physician described as a “modern-day Dr. Frankenstein,” was sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal prison...
Biotech & Pharma

Gene Therapy With a Difference

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.23.2013
Terri Ellsworth is convinced that her 12-year-old son Billy, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is being helped by an experimental...
Bioethics

Wealthy Chinese Seek U.S. Surrogates for Second Child, Green Card

By Alexandra Harney, Reuters | 09.23.2013
Wealthy Chinese are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in...
Assisted Reproduction

More DNA Samples, More Debate

By Erica E. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal | 09.23.2013
Law-enforcement agencies in many places routinely take DNA samples from people convicted of murder and other violent crimes. But here...
Biotech & Pharma

Welsh Police Take DNA Samples from more than 5,500 Children

By James McCarthy, Wales Online | 09.22.2013

A one-year-old baby is among thousands of children who have had their DNA taken by police officers in Wales.

A...

Other Countries

Gendercide in the Caucasus

By The Economist, The Economist | 09.21.2013

The practice of aborting female foetuses is found mostly in China and other Asian countries. But it is prevalent in...

Bioethics

Controversial IVF Therapy Could Turn Families into Experiments, Scientists Warn

By John Ross, The Australian | 09.20.2013
SCIENTISTS have called for time-out on an experimental therapy which could produce babies with three biological parents.

A paper published...
Global Governance

Still Chasing Ghosts: A New Genetic Methodology Will Not Find the “Missing Heritability”

By Evan Charney, Independent Science News | 09.19.2013
One of the hopes and promises of the Human Genome Sequencing Project was that it would revolutionize the understanding, diagnosis...
Biotech & Pharma