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 the Humanities Embrace Scientism? My Postmodern Response to Pinker’s Patronizing “Plea”

By John Horgan, Scientific American | 08.14.2013
Damn you, Gary Stix! I was just about to head off on a vacation when my old Scientific American buddy...
Biopolitics

Unhidden Traits: Genomic Data Privacy Debates Heat Up

By Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, Scientific American | 08.14.2013
Earlier this year Yaniv Erlich of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at M.I.T. sent bioethicists into a frenzy when...
Global Governance

US Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics

By Helen Shen, Nature | 08.14.2013
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues...
Biopolitics

California Bill Would Redefine Sperm Donor Rights

By Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.13.2013
California's state Legislature is preparing to battle over a bill that could redefine the family unit and the parental rights...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Whose Stem Cells are They Anyway?

By Editorial, New Scientist | 08.13.2013
THERE'S trouble brewing over stem cells in Texas, and it raises a big question for the future of medicine. How...
U.S. States

Pentagon’s Giant Blood Serum Bank May Provide PTSD Clues

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 08.12.2013
Nestled inside a generic-looking office building here in suburban Maryland, down the hall from cable-provider Comcast, sits the largest blood...
Bioethics

Would you Post your DNA on Facebook?

By Quentin Fottrell, The Wall Street Journal | 08.12.2013
We are all Henrietta Lacks. Or, according to privacy experts, we soon could be. Americans are giving their DNA to...
Global Governance

North Carolina’s Bold Model for Eugenics Compensation

By Peter Hardin and Paul Lombardo, Richmond Times-Dispatch | 08.11.2013
In a landmark action, North Carolina legislators have voted to spend $10 million to compensate men and women sterilized under...
Bioethics