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

Clinic Raffles Could Make You a Winner, and Maybe a Mother

By Douglas Quenqua, New York Times | 10.20.2012

“That’s right, one lucky woman will win the ultimate chance at starting or building her family,” said a contest announcement...

Assisted Reproduction

Surrogacy, Now Big Business in Southern California

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 10.20.2012

Conceptual Options is a surrogacy agency in “the surrogacy friendly state of California”. This is a promotional video it is...

LGBTQI

Freezing Human Eggs for In Vitro Fertilization No Longer Experimental Procedure

By Margaret Warner, PBS Newshour | 10.19.2012

Watch Freezing Human Eggs for In Vitro No Longer Experimental on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

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Assisted Reproduction

Freezing Eggs To Make Babies Later Moves Toward Mainstream

By Rob Stein, NPR Morning Edition | 10.19.2012
Doctors who specialize in treating infertility are making a big change in their position on a controversial practice. The American...
Bioethics

Genome Hunters Go After Martian DNA

By Antonio Regalado, Technology Review | 10.18.2012
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid...
Genomics

Should We Screen Kids’ Brains and Genes To ID Future Criminals?

By Gary Marchant, Slate | 10.17.2012
This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that...
Bioethics

Research Firm Reaped Stem Cell Funds Despite Panel's Advice

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.17.2012
StemCells Inc. has a history not much different from those of dozens, even hundreds, of biotech companies all around California...
Biotech & Pharma

Craig Venter Imagines a World with Printable Life Forms

By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 10.16.2012
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.

“It’s...
Biotech & Pharma