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

Don’t Freeze Your Eggs Quite Yet

By Miriam Zoll, Slate | 05.24.2013
In her recent Slate article, “I Should Have Frozen My Eggs,” Amy Klein, who is currently in her...
Biotech & Pharma

UK Building DNA Database in the NHS 'By Stealth'

By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 05.23.2013
The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and...
Bioethics

UK Building DNA Database in the NHS 'By Stealth'

By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 05.23.2013
The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and...
Bioethics

Race Is Not Biology

By Merlin Chowkwanyun, The Atlantic | 05.23.2013

During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which...

Bioethics

Stem-Cell Cloner Acknowledges Errors in Groundbreaking Paper

By David Cyranoski & Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 05.23.2013
A blockbuster paper that reported the creation of human stem-cell lines through cloning has come under fire. An anonymous online...
Stem Cells

Pregnant at 60

By Miriam Zoll, The Atlantic | 05.22.2013
In her best selling novel, State of Wonder, author Ann Patchett draws us into the science-fiction world of an...
Assisted Reproduction

Grant Reviewer Conflict in $40 Million Round at California Stem Cell Agency

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 05.21.2013
Internationally renown scientist Lee Hood, winner of a National Medal of Science, violated the conflict of interest policies of...
Biopolitics

An invitation to meet George Estreich at the Center for Genetics and Society on Monday, June 3

By Flagged | 05.21.2013

Please join us at the CGS office on Monday June 3 at 4:30 pm for a conversation with award-winning author...

Technologies