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...

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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...

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Kickstarter Bans Project Creators from Giving Away Genetically-Modified Organisms

By Duncan Geere, The Verge | 08.02.2013
Kickstarter is clamping down on genetically-modified organisms following the success of a project to genetically engineer glowing plants for use...
Biotech & Pharma

The Biggest Threat to the Genomic Revolution? Spying Scandals

By Gillian Tett, Financial Times | 07.31.2013
There are not many areas of the economy where costs are one-millionth of what they were a decade ago. Biomedical...
Bioethics

The Fallibility of DNA

By Michael Risher, The New York Times | 07.31.2013
Re “High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics,” by Osagie K. Obasogie (Op-Ed, July 25):

The myth of DNA infallibility has another...
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Man Pleads Guilty in Stem Cell Scheme

By Mike Glenn, The Houston Chronicle | 07.31.2013
Mike Martin needed a medical miracle.

Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the Houston man...
Biotech & Pharma

Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | 07.31.2013
Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences...
Genomics

Japan to Start Stem-Cell Study on Humans

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.30.2013
On 1 August, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, will start recruiting patients for the...
Biotech & Pharma

Egg Donors Create Support Group for Women and Push for More Safety Data

By Raquel Cool, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.30.2013

I recently decided to retire as an egg donor.

This choice is clearly right for me, and although I speak...

Bioethics

Russian-Speakers who Want to Make Aliya Could Need DNA Test

By Asher Zeiger, The Times of Israel | 07.29.2013

A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testing...

Bioethics