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

Baby Boom: Indian Women Giving Birth to U.S. Babies

By Holly Williams, CBS News | 04.10.2013
(CBS News) ANAND, India -- A lot of businesses go to India for inexpensive labor and it turns out American...
Other Countries

The Right to Speak Out

By Editorial, Nature | 04.09.2013

What do Adam, Eve and the Queen of Sheba have to do with libel reform? Ask David Balding and Mark...

Biopolitics

Genetics: A Gene of Rare Effect

By Stephen S. Hall, Nature | 04.09.2013
When Sharlayne Tracy showed up at the clinical suite in the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...
Genomics

Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?

By Pete Shanks, Alternet | 04.08.2013

There's a buzz now around bringing species back from the dead. There's even a spiffy new name for it: "de-extinction."...

Genomics

Surrogacy flourishes despite crackdown

By Zhang Wen, Global Times | 04.07.2013
Despite law enforcers shutting down a surrogacy service in the capital last month, similar agencies are still providing the lucrative...
Other Countries

Three-Parent Children in UK Possible After HFEA Report

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.06.2013
The UK is moving closer to three-parent children after the fertility regulator informed the government that the public would back...
Genetic Selection

Powder women's eggs for home storage

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 04.04.2013
JUST add water and sperm – any romance should be provided separately. In future, women who want to safeguard their...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Should researchers pay for women's eggs?

By Ruha Benjamin, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.04.2013
Many critics of the publicly funded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine have fixated on conflicts of interest that plague the...
Human Cloning