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

More Women Turn to Frozen Eggs For Help With Infertility

By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun | 12.08.2012
Ellen Carpenter delayed marriage until she found Mr. Right, but by that time she was 38 years old, making it...
Assisted Reproduction

Plans for NHS Database of Patients' DNA Angers Privacy Campaigners

By Jamie Doward, The Guardian (UK) | 12.08.2012
Controversial plans to build a massive database that would be capable of storing every British citizen's DNA records will be...
Bioethics

IOM Proposals for Overhaul at CIRM Win High Marks

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.07.2012
The Institute of Medicine's recommendations for major changes at the California stem cell agency today received generally high marks from...
Fact Sheets

Public Expectations and Reality of Stem Cell Therapies Translation

By Alexey Bersenev, Cell Trials | 12.07.2012
Needless to say how much stem cell topic is overhyped today. Just turn on TV or radio and look at...
Biotech & Pharma

Report says California’s taxpayer-funded stem cell agency needs a reorganization

By Alicia Chang, Associated Press, Washington Post | 12.06.2012
LOS ANGELES — California has transformed into a major player in stem cell research, but the taxpayer-funded institute responsible has...
Biotech & Pharma

Report recommends changes to California stem cell agency's board, goals

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 12.06.2012
A review of California's stem cell research funding agency proposed changes to the agency's governing structure and commercial goals while...
Fact Sheets

Welcome to DownTown Abbey

By Jane Ridley, Page Six Magazine | 12.06.2012
When the lady of the house asked Elizabeth*, her attractive Upper East Side nanny, to step into her office to...
Bioethics

Fertility Clinics' Ad Regulation Falls Short, Report Says

By Catherine Pearson, The Huffington Post | 12.06.2012
Smiling babies. Confusing statistics. Talk of miracles. There is too little oversight of how fertility clinics market themselves online, a...
Bioethics