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...

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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...

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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...

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The Ethics of Creating Children With Three Genetic Parents

By Françoise Baylis, Reproductive BioMedicine Online | 03.27.2013

[For full, original article with links, see here]

Introduction

Children born since the mid-1990s after ooplasm transfer (estimated to...

Biotech & Pharma

GM Crops Evil, GM Children OK?

By Chris Bennett, Western Farm Press | 03.27.2013
China is surging ahead with a research project aimed at identifying millions of genetic variations in order to boost intelligence...
Human Genetic Modification

HeLa Publication Brews Bioethical Storm

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.27.2013
When Lars Steinmetz and his team published the genome of the world’s most famous human cell line earlier this month...
Biotech & Pharma

Scientists Unravel Genetic Causes of Prostate, Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.27.2013
A national screening programme for prostate cancer could be introduced by the NHS following an international effort by more than...
Civil Society

Stem-Cell Ruling Riles Researchers

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.26.2013
Clinics that offer unproven stem-cell treatments often end up playing cat and mouse with health regulators, no matter which country...
Bioethics

You Don't "Own" Your Own Genes

By Press Release, Weill Cornell Medical College | 03.25.2013

NEW YORK (March 25, 2013) — Humans don't "own" their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are...

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Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals are More Likely to Reoffend

By Regina Nuzzo, Nature | 03.25.2013
In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to...
Biotech & Pharma

Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions

By Ruha Benjamin, Huffington Post | 03.25.2013
The old photograph struck me immediately. The caption read: "Ella Tyree, 29, inject[ing] atomic materials into animals to determine effects...
Biotech & Pharma