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

A New High-Tech, Grass-Roots Effort to Fight Breast Cancer

By Apoorva Mandavilli, Slate | 06.25.2013
By now you’ve probably heard that, thanks to the Supreme Court, no one, and certainly not Myriad Genetics, can patent...
Patents & Other IP

Supreme Court Strikes a Hard Blow to Tribal Sovereignty in Adoption Case

By Aura Bogado, The Nation | 06.25.2013
In a 5 to 4 decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) does not...
Biopolitics

Sterilized Transsexuals Sue Swedish government

By Ann Törnkvist, The Local | 06.24.2013
"Honestly, what the hell is the problem?" says Swedish actress Aleksa Lundberg about the Swedish prime minister's refusal to apologize...
Bioethics

Powerful Gene-Editing Tool Appears to Cause Off-Target Mutations in Human Cells

By Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Codex | 06.23.2013
In the past year a group of synthetic proteins called CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have generated great excitement in the...
Biotech & Pharma

Pioneering Icelandic Genetics Company Denied Approval for Data-Mining Plan

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 06.20.2013
deCODE Genetics, the company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has...
Other Countries

U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 06.20.2013
The Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes a claim about the absence...
U.S. Federal

Should Women Make a Profit on Donating Their Eggs For Research?

By Larry Mantle, KPCC | 06.20.2013

[To listen to the full radio segment, go here]

The amount of money a woman can receive for donating...

Bioethics

'More Rights, More Inclusion, Better Country': Argentina Approves IVF for All

By Alex Stern, The Huffington Post | 06.20.2013
This post was co-authored with Gamal Serour, M.D.

Earlier this month Argentina joined the list of countries that subsidize in...
Bioethics