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

Brown Ponders Sale of Women's Eggs For Research

By Alex Matthews, Capitol Weekly | 07.10.2013
It’s a complex, emotionally-loaded question: What kinds of women sell eggs to infertile couples in California?

For Carol Hogan of...
Bioethics

Science Media: Centre of Attention

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 07.10.2013
Depending on whom you ask, Fiona Fox is either saving science journalism or destroying it. But today, she is touting...
Public Opinion

2 Competitors Sued by Genetics Company for Patent Infringement

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 07.10.2013
Myriad Genetics is suing competitors that have begun to offer genetic testing for breast cancer risk after the Supreme Court’s...
Genomics

Trial and Error

By Editorial, Nature | 07.09.2013
The Italian government is planning to oversee a clinical trial of a controversial stem-cell therapy. There are many reasons for...
Bioethics

'Designer Babies': The Ultimate Privileged Elite?

By Heather Long, Guardian | 07.09.2013
When the world looks back at how the "designer babies" trend began, they will see an innocent start. A Philadelphia...
Human Genetic Modification

A Slippery Slope to Human Germline Modification

By Marcy Darnovsky, Nature | 07.09.2013

The UK government’s recent move towards human trials of mitochondrial-replacement techniques has prompted intense interest among scientists and bioethicists, while...

Genetic Selection

Legislature Can Still Do Eugenics Compensation

By Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer | 07.08.2013

The N.C. legislature is still attracting attention for all the wrong reasons – last week, it was stealth Senate approval...

Eugenics

First Baby Born After Full Genetic Screening of Embryos

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 07.08.2013
Connor, a healthy baby boy, has made history. He is the first child to be born after his parents had...
Genetic Selection