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

Rights to Maternity Leave Granted to Parents Through Surrogacy

By Sarah Guy, BioNews | 11.26.2012

The right to maternity leave in the UK will be extended to parents of children born through surrogacy, under proposed...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Fertility Treatment Waiting Times Halve After Increased Payments to Donors

By Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph (UK) | 11.26.2012
Many couples were faced with waits or two or more years with hundreds forced abroad for expensive and risky treatment...
Bioethics

Girls R Us: Sex Selection, Sound Bites and Weak Data

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.21.2012
I finally got around to reading Hanna Rosin’s article, “The End of Men,” which ran in the Atlantic...
Technologies

The Million Veteran Program: Building VA’s Mega-Database for Genomic Medicine

By Joel Kupersmith and Timothy O'Leary, Health Affairs | 11.19.2012

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick (and Wilkins) being named Nobel Prize recipients for discovering DNA...

Genomics

An Ethics Debate Over Embryos on the Cheap

By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 11.19.2012
Dr. Ernest Zeringue was looking for a niche in the cutthroat industry of fertility treatments.

He seized on price, a...
Bioethics

Tesla, Eugenics And Rationalizing Dehumanization

By Alex Knapp, Forbes | 11.19.2012
Last Friday, the great blogger Matt Novak (who you should read often) uncovered evidence that Nikola Tesla, writing in 1935...
Bioethics

With Animals Under Threat, Brazilian Team Aims to Clone 8 Wild Species

By Jenny Barchfield, The Washington Post | 11.15.2012
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species...
Other Countries

Heat Monitor's Fertile Ground for Would-be Parents

By Amy Wilson, Telegraph [UK] | 11.13.2012
Most entrepreneurs care deeply about their businesses but they’re not usually reduced to tears by a successful sale.

For Oriane...
Biotech & Pharma