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

Making Babies, Just to Make Ends Meet

By Susan Straight, The New York Times | 11.03.2012
SOMETIMES life is like a fun-house mirror, the glass and then the real thing. I had just watched the TV...
Genetic Selection

Military Mind Wars

By Jonathan D. Moreno, The Scientist | 11.01.2012
Think of a question or technology of interest to neuroscience and there is an application with military or counterintelligence potential...
Biotech & Pharma

Inquiry Into Practice of Sterilising Disabled Women

By Tom Nightingale, ABC News (Australia) | 11.01.2012

A Senate committee is looking into the controversial practice of sterilising disabled people, something many Australians are shocked to find...

Eugenics

Genetic Profiteering: Scandal of Firm 'Hiding Vital Breast Cancer Data'

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 11.01.2012
The company that makes the world's biggest-selling gene test for breast and ovarian cancers is refusing to share groundbreaking knowledge...
Genomics

Why I Don’t Want to Know My Genome Sequence

By Ricki Lewis, PLOS Blogs | 11.01.2012
Famous folk have been writing about their genome sequences for a few years now. But when I received two such...
Genomics

Ethics Panel Urges Cautious Approach to DNA Testing

By Peter Stanners, The Copenhagen Post | 11.01.2012
As genetic tests become increasingly cheaper, the temptation to take one, principally to find out what illnesses we may be...
Technologies

Have India’s Poor Become Human Guinea Pigs?

By Sue Lloyd-Roberts, BBC News | 10.31.2012

Drug companies are facing mounting pressure to investigate reports that new medicines are being tested on some of the poorest...

Bioethics

Medical Students’ DNA – and Psychology – on Display in Classroom

By Jessica Cussins | 10.31.2012

In a recent CBS News video segment, Eric E. Schadt, chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences...

Technologies