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

How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?

By Sean Coughlan, BBC News | 04.25.2013

What are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction?

An international...

Human Genetic Modification

Shame and Guilt in Minnesota

By Carl Elliott, Bioethics Forum | 04.24.2013
Over the past month, a petition asking the governor of Minnesota to investigate a research scandal at the University of...
Human Rights

Grandma's Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes

By Dan Hurley, Discover | 04.23.2013
Darwin and Freud walk into a bar. Two alcoholic mice — a mother and her son — sit on two...
Genomics

Prenatal DNA Sequencing

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2013
Earlier this year Illumina, the maker of the world’s most widely used DNA sequencing machines, agreed to pay nearly half...
Bioethics

Boston IVF Receives $1 Million From U.S. Health and Human Services To Develop National Protocol To Promote The Use Of Embryo Donation As A Family Building Option

By Press Release, The Wall Street Journal | 04.23.2013

BOSTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston IVF, a leading medical practice providing specialized infertility treatment since 1986, has received...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Nuffield Report: Parents Should Decide Whether or Not to 'Tell'

By Wybo Dondorp, BioNews | 04.22.2013
Last week, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics presented its report on ethical aspects of information sharing in donor conception. Although...
Global Governance

The Baby Blueprint [VIDEO]

By Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2013

If you had the option, would you use genetic engineering to choose certain traits for your children? But beyond picking...

Genetic Selection

That “Pernicious” Notion of the “Best Interests of the Child”

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.20.2013
Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states what everyone considers to be a...
Human Rights