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

Could it be a 'Cure'? Breakthrough Prompts Down Syndrome Soul-Searching

By JoNel Aleccia, NBC News | 08.11.2013
In the 14 years since her daughter, Rachel, was born with Down syndrome, Jawanda Mast has always been clear that...
Biotech & Pharma

Bursting the Neuro-Utopian Bubble

By Benjamin Fong, The New York Times | 08.11.2013
During my graduate studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia, I spent countless hours in the Burke Library of...
Public Opinion

Stem Cells: What Happened to the Radical Breakthroughs?

By Simon Roach, The Guardian | 08.10.2013
It's 1998 and science is taking big strides. The first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep, has just had her first...
Biotech & Pharma

Why Is Myriad Genetics Still Filing Patent Suits for Breast-Cancer Tests?

By Brian Resnick, National Journal | 08.08.2013
You can't patent a piece of the human genome, the Supreme Court declared in a unanimous decision in June...
Genomics

Americans Say No to Bringing Back Wooly Mammoth

By Ben Henderson, YouGov | 08.07.2013
A majority of Americans say cloning animals is acceptable in some circumstances, but not to reintroduce extinct species

Last month...
Public Opinion

The Henrietta Lacks Story and Eggs, Money and Motherhood

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 08.07.2013
The legacy of Henrietta Lacks popped up again today in a piece in the New York Times that should resonate...
Genomics

23andMe, Myself, and I

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 08.07.2013
Here is the new ad from 23andMe that will begin airing shortly on cable TV*:



Genomics is going...
Arts & Culture

Deal Done Over HeLa Cell Line

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 08.07.2013
Deborah Lacks wanted answers. In 1974, she asked a leading medical geneticist to tell her about HeLa cells, a tissue-culture...
Bioethics