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

Genetic Privacy

By Editorial, Nature | 01.17.2013

How private is private? A study published on 17 January reveals vulnerabilities in the security of public databases that contain...

Global Governance

"Adventurous Female Human" Needed to Give Birth to Neandertal

By Genome Web, Genome Web | 01.17.2013

Many Germans are afraid of genetic engineering, according to Spiegel Online, the online offshoot of the German news magazine...

Assisted Reproduction

A Dangerous Game: Some Athletes Risk Untested Stem Cell Treatments

By Deborah Franklin, Scientific American | 01.16.2013
In 2005, at the age of 32, then Los Angeles Angel Bartolo Colón won the American League Cy Young Award...
Biotech & Pharma

IVF on Steroids: The Dangerous Off-Label Use of 'Dex' During Pregnancy

By Alice Dreger, The Atlantic | 01.16.2013
When Susan Manning, a 39-year-old woman just a few weeks into her first pregnancy, wrote to tell me she had...
Biotech & Pharma

Moore is Less

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Helen Theung, Stanford Technology Law Review | 01.15.2013

Since Moore v. Regents of the University of California, there has been a wide-ranging debate regarding the holding of the...

Patents & Other IP

The Case for Paternalism in Genetic Testing

By Laura Hercher, Wired | 01.14.2013
“So,” the journalist interviewing me asked, “you are for paternalism, then?”

Pause.  I feel the linguistic walls closing in on...
Bioethics

Egg Sharing Cuts Bristol's IVF Waiting List

By Polly March, BBC News | 01.12.2013

A new "egg sharing" programme and an increase in the amount egg donors are compensated have significantly cut waiting times...

Bioethics

Eric Hoffman on a Very Discreet Newcomer: Synthetic Biology

By Eric Hoffman, A World of Science | 01.11.2013

Synthetic biology was one of the themes discussed at the Assises du vivant, a forum organized jointly by UNESCO and...

Genetic Selection