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

Expansion Of The Genetic Surveillance State: Taking The Blood Of Babies Born To Mississippi Teens

By Kashmir Hill, Forbes | 07.02.2013
In what sounds like a plot twist from a dystopic-future novel, Mississippi is now requiring hospitals to store the blood...
U.S. States

Paper Raises Hundreds Of Questions About The Integrity Of Stem Cell Research Group

By Larry Husten, Forbes | 07.02.2013
Serious questions have been raised about the integrity and validity of research performed by a well-established German stem cell research...
Bioethics

Facebook Grapples with Rules for Patients Seeking Organ Donors

By Kevin B. O’Reilly, American Medical News | 07.01.2013
Officials at Facebook are exploring how to help patients in need of organ transplants use the social networking service to...
Media Coverage

DOH Mulls Infant Gender-Selection Curbs For Sex Ratio

By Alison Hsiao, Taipei Times | 07.01.2013
In an attempt to curb the practice of gender selection among parents-to-be, the Department of Health (DOH) is mulling imposing...
Bioethics

California Legislation, Human Egg Sales and Profits

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.01.2013
California legislation to allow women to be paid for their eggs for scientific research is sailing toward final passage literally...
Biopolitics

Center for Genetics and Society - Marcy Darnovsky on Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie

By Angela McKenzie, Initiative Radio | 06.30.2013
Human Cloning

Three Person IVF

By Paula Boddington, Practical Ethics | 06.29.2013
It was announced yesterday that the government is moving towards allowing so-called three person IVF for the creation of embryos...
Genetic Selection

Three Parents? Sorry, But This is Science Gone Mad

By Melanie McDonagh, Telegraph | 06.29.2013
The British are a pragmatic people, which is a good thing, in general, but doesn’t make for much rigour in...
Bioethics