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

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

By Jacoba Urist, The Atlantic | 05.14.2013
Suddenly, it seems, everyone is singing the praises of oocyte cryopreservation -- or what must of us call egg freezing...
Assisted Reproduction

Angelina Jolie and the Fate of Breast Cancer Genes

By Alexandra Le Tellier, Los Angeles Times | 05.14.2013
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk...
Biotech & Pharma

Modesto Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for Surrogacy Scam

By Carlos Saucedo, ABC Local | 05.13.2013
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The owner of a Modesto surrogate agency accused of a $2 million fraud scheme was sentenced...
Bioethics

EEOC Files and Settles Its First GINA-based Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 05.13.2013
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a statement that it had filed a lawsuit against Fabricut, Inc. on May...
Bioethics

The Dark Art of Racecraft

By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic | 05.13.2013
Dave Weigel is one of my favorite reporters, but I think this piece on Jason Richwine, intelligence research, and "race"...
Civil Society

The DNA in Your Garbage: Up For Grabs

By Kevin Hartnett, The Boston Globe | 05.12.2013
Imagine you stop by a Starbucks one morning, and the shop is robbed only minutes after you leave. Witnesses say...
Genomics

Dad Aims to Change Views of Down Syndrome in New Book

By Jessica Ryen Doyle, Fox News | 05.11.2013
For George Estreich, the decision to write a book about his daughter, Laura, and her diagnosis of Down syndrome came...
Public Opinion

Crisis-Burdened Spain and Cyprus are Hot Spots for Women to Sell Their Eggs

By Lauren Alix Brown, Quartz | 05.10.2013
Egg donations thrive off the young and desperate. For years, US college campuses have been plastered with signs imploring young...
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