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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Sale of Personal Gene Data Condemned as 'Unethical and Dangerous'

By Jamie Doward, The Guardian | 02.16.2013
Private firms will soon be able to buy people's medical and genetic data without their consent and, in certain cases...
Bioethics

Parents of Down's Syndrome Woman, 21, Can NOT Have her Sterilised, Rules Judge

By Daniel Miller, Daily Mail | 02.16.2013
The parents of an 'affectionate' 21-year-old woman with Down's syndrome have been forbidden from having her sterilised despite their concerns...
Biotech & Pharma

Cancer Group Loses Federal Court Bid Against Human Gene Patent

By Rick Morton, The Australian | 02.15.2013
Cancer Voices Australia brought the case as it believed Myriad Genetics Inc, which owns the patent on the genes BRCA1...
Bioethics

Exaggerations and Misrepresentations Have No Place in Science Policy Debates

By Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible Genetics | 02.15.2013
Yesterday Intelligence Squared held a debate (watch it in its entirety here) on whether we should prohibit genetically...
Human Genetic Modification

Synthetic Biology and the “Bioeconomy”: Feeding Fuel to the Fire of Landgrabs and Biodiversity Loss

By Eric Hoffman and Jeff Conant, Global Forest Coalition | 02.14.2013

[For footnotes, see here]

The industrial revolution replaced wood for fossil fuels as the driver of the engine of...

Global Governance

Embryo-Like Stem Cells Enter First Human Trial

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 02.14.2013
It will be the first clinical study to put induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into humans — and where more...
Biotech & Pharma

Stem Cells in Texas: Cowboy Culture

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 02.13.2013
Ann McFarlane is losing faith. In the first half of 2012, the Houston resident received four infusions of adult stem...
U.S. States

Study: Sex-Selective Practices May be Common in Families of Indian Doctors

By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post | 02.13.2013
Doctors’ families in India are having more sons than daughters, reports a new study in the American journal Demography...
Bioethics