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

Mexican Americans Sterilized Disproportionately in California Institutions, Study Says

By Roque Planas, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2013
When a woman identified by the pseudonym of Minelva entered Pacific Colony, a California “home for the feebleminded,” she had...
Biopolitics

De-Extinction Debate: Should Extinct Species Be Revived?

By Liza Gross, KQED | 06.05.2013
Last month, hundreds of experts who study human-environment interactions called on policymakers to take immediate action to curb humanity’s ecologically...
Synthetic Biology

Spirometry: A Built-in ‘Correction’ For Race?

By Lundy Braun, Brown University | 06.03.2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Lundy Braun studies racial health disparities and their history as a professor of both pathology...
Public Opinion

They’re Coming for Your DNA

By Emily Bazelon, Slate | 06.03.2013
DNA analysis is the major crime-solving advance of our time. It’s the science behind many exonerations, and many more guilty...
Genomics

California DNA Law is Broader Than Program Upheld by Supreme Court

By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 06.03.2013
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the right of authorities to take DNA from people when they...
Genomics

Justices Allow DNA Collection After an Arrest

By Adam Liptak, The New York Times | 06.03.2013
WASHINGTON — The police may take DNA samples from people arrested in connection with serious crimes, the Supreme Court ruled...
Genomics

Should We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon and the Woolly Mammoth?

By Elizabeth Weise, USA Today | 06.02.2013
Spanish scientists were able to clone an extinct Pyrenean ibex in 2009 using preserved skin cells, though the kid died...
Bioethics

What Clinical Geneticists Think About DTC Genetic Testing

By Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 05.31.2013
A new survey of over 100 European clinical geneticists reveals general opposition to the way in which direct to consumer...
Bioethics