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

Unregulated Surrogacy Industry Worth Over $2bn Thrives Without Legal Framework

By Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India | 07.18.2013
NEW DELHI: With an unregulated surrogacy industry thriving in India, rich couples are preying on domestic helps and housemaids coercing...
Other Countries

Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits Vary in Predictions of Disease Risk

By Medical Xpress, Medical Xpress | 07.17.2013

An in-depth analysis and comparison study conducted by investigators at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health demonstrated variations in predicted...

Genomics

Don’t Market Stem-Cell Products Ahead of Proof

By Paolo Bianco, Nature | 07.17.2013
Translational medicine is said to reflect a need to harness the huge wealth of scientific knowledge in biomedicine. In fact...
Bioethics

Researchers Turn Off Down’s Syndrome Genes

By Beth Mole, Nature | 07.17.2013
The insertion of one gene can muzzle the extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down’s syndrome, according to a...
Genomics

Senator Leahy Urges NIH to Use March-In Rights on Myriad BRCA Test

By Donald Zuhn, Patent Docs | 07.17.2013
On Friday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of...
Genomics

The Ethics of Three-Genetic-Parent Embryos

By Margaret Somerville, Ottawa Citizen | 07.17.2013
The United Kingdom Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has been in the news for giving the go-ahead to creating three-genetic-parent...
Genetic Selection

Viewpoints: Risks are Many in Paying Women to Donate Eggs

By Diane Tober and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Sacramento Bee | 07.16.2013

As scientists in California delve more deeply into stem cell research and reproductive science, it is essential that women donating...

Stem Cells

Pitts: Gruesome Bad Old Days of Eugenics Haven't Left Us

By Leonard Pitts, The Columbian | 07.15.2013
As Christina Cordero remembers it, the doctor would not take no for an answer.

"As soon as he found out...
Human Rights