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

Motherhood Deferred: Freezing Your Eggs

By Judy Campbell, KQED Forum | 05.31.2013
Journalist Sarah Elizabeth Richards thought she could step away from the panic of her ticking biological clock and postpone motherhood...
Biotech & Pharma

Supreme Court Won't Hear Case of B.C. Woman Seeking Info About Sperm-Donor Dad

By The Canadian Press, The Vancouver Sun | 05.30.2013
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a woman who wanted to know the...
Bioethics

Groups File Suit Against Arizona Law that Bans Abortion Based on Race, Gender Selection

By Howard Fischer, East Valley Tribune | 05.29.2013
Calling the measure racist, a coalition of rights groups filed suit Wednesday to overturn a two-year-old law banning abortion for...
Bioethics

Quest for 'Genius Babies'?

By Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed | 05.29.2013
Jason Richwine swiftly resigned from the Heritage Foundation this month following revelations of his 2009 Harvard University dissertation on IQ...
Genomics

Why Efforts to Bring Extinct Species Back from the Dead Miss the Point

By The Editors, Scientific American | 05.27.2013
“We will get woolly mammoths back.” So vowed environmentalist Stewart Brand at the TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., in...
Bioethics

Stroke Patients See Signs of Recovery in Stem-Cell Trial

By Pallab Ghosh, BBC News | 05.27.2013
Five seriously disabled stroke patients have shown small signs of recovery following the injection of stem cells into their brain...
Stem Cells

Editorial: More Conflicts Come to Light at Stem Cell Institute

By Editorial, The Sacramento Bee | 05.25.2013

 With a new chairman, Jonathan Thomas, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine claims it has turned a page. Thomas has...

Biopolitics

Leading Scientist Attacks University Over 'Outrageous' IVF Treatment Patent

By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 05.25.2013
A fresh international row has erupted over granting US patents to processes which many scientists believe are basic aspects of...
Bioethics