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

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Blessing? Curse? Both?

By Eleanor J Bader, Truthout | 07.28.2013
The 11-year-old Calabasas, California, business is called Planet Hospital. Billing itself as a "medical tourism" company, its website informs...
Bioethics

Is Eugenics Ever Okay?

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 07.26.2013
A flurry of eugenics-related news over the last couple of weeks demonstrates that we have to stop considering eugenics a...
Genetic Selection

In India, a Rise in Surrogate Births for West

By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post | 07.26.2013

NEW DELHI — When 24-year-old Komal Kapoor handed over the twins she had just borne to a visiting American couple...

Other Countries

Stem Cell Agency Approves Plan for Clinical Trial Network

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 07.26.2013
The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine voted Thursday to adopt a $70-million plan to develop a...
Fact Sheets

uBiome: Ethical Lapse or Not?

By Judy Stone, Scientific American | 07.25.2013

uBiome’s CEO, Jessica Richman, seems to me to be a great saleswoman who also excels at sounding innocent and playing...

Bioethics

UK Forensic Science Slammed by Inquiry

By Daniel Cressey, Nature | 07.25.2013
UK government failures over forensic science are leading to fragmentation, research gaps and possibly even miscarriages of justice, according to...
Bioethics

The Moral Price of Human Eggs

By S. Lochlann Jain, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.25.2013
Gov. Jerry Brown is considering a crucial bill (AB926) on human egg donation. The bill would enable payment to women...
Biopolitics

High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The New York Times | 07.24.2013

SAN FRANCISCO — WHEN the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside...

Genomics