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

Stem Cell Cash Mostly Aids Directors' Interests

By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 09.23.2012
With its latest round of awards earlier this month, California's stem cell agency has now handed out $1.5 billion to...
Fact Sheets

'Single Gene May Hold Key to Life Itself'

By Nathaniel Comfort, Huffington Post | 09.23.2012
"Your IQ depends on a single gene"; "Long life is all in the genes"; "A gene that could explain why...
Media Coverage

Ich Bin ein Scrounger

By Judith Levine, Seven Days | 09.21.2012
I was in London last week, and the Brits were mad for the Paralympics. Virtually every event was sold out...
Disability Rights

An API for Genome Apps

By The Daily Scan, The Daily Scan | 09.20.2012

23andMe is opening up its application programming interface so that third-party developers can create apps that will piggyback on customers'...

Biotech & Pharma

California and the Fourth Amendment

By Editorial, The New York Times | 09.18.2012

On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to reconsider whether California violates the...

U.S. Federal

Federal Appeals Court to Hear Challenge to California DNA Collection Law

By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News | 09.16.2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- On a March day three years ago in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, Elizabeth "Lily" Haskell was...

Genomics

A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells

By Henry Fountain, New York Times | 09.15.2012

STOCKHOLM — Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the...

Stem Cells

How To Buy a Daughter: Choosing the sex of your baby has become a multimillion-dollar industry

By Jasmeet Sidhu, Slate | 09.14.2012

Megan Simpson always expected that she would be a mother to a daughter.

She had grown up in a family...

Assisted Reproduction