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

Meet the New Eugenics, Same as the Old Eugenics

By Gina Maranto, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor | 03.04.2013
The unfortunate truth is that discredited ideas never do die, they just rise again in slightly altered forms—witness eugenics.  Despite...
Technologies

BRCA1 gene patent ruling to be appealed

By Amy Corderoy, The Age [Australia] | 03.04.2013
A decision that private companies can control human genes will be appealed in the Federal Court.

Cancer groups have applauded...
Other Countries

Surrogacy Laws May Leave Australian Babies Stateless

By Kerry Brewster, ABC News [Australia] | 03.04.2013
In Australia, commercial surrogacy is illegal. The ban has resulted in a steady flow of heterosexual and gay Australians to...
Other Countries

Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth

By Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.04.2013
Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon.

More than a decade ago...
Biotech & Pharma

Should Patients Understand that They are Research Subjects?

By Jenny Reardon, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.03.2013
While checking in last month for an appointment with my doctor, I was handed a clipboard and pen and asked...
U.S. States

What Is a Gene And How Does it Apply to the Law? The Supreme Court Still Doesn't Know.

By Brian Resnick, National Journal | 03.02.2013
Sixty years ago, scientists first discovered DNA, the structure in which a person’s genes are encoded. Since then, our knowledge...
Patents & Other IP

The Throwaways

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Guernica | 03.01.2013
I met Ruth and Priscka at Women Fighting Aids (WOFAK) in Kenya, one of the country’s first HIV advocacy organizations...
Bioethics

Critiquing the Stem Cell Board

By Editorial, Los Angeles Times | 02.27.2013

After years of resisting all criticisms of its operations, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is finally listening — a...

Bioethics