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

Potential Perils of DIY Genetic Testing

By Anna Salleh, ABC News | 09.11.2012

Being told you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism could make you feel you have less control over your drinking...

Other Countries

Most of What you Read was Wrong: How Press Releases Rewrote Scientific History

By John Timmer, ARS Technica | 09.10.2012

This week, the ENCODE project released the results of its latest attempt to catalog all the activities associated with the...

Media Coverage

Science, Standards and Forensics: Part III

By Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post | 09.09.2012
After his 28 years in prison, freed by DNA tests, Donald Eugene Gates reflected on the difficulty of adjusting to...
U.S. States

Is Costa Rica Violating Human Rights by Banning In Vitro Fertilization?

By Matt Levin, Tico Times | 09.07.2012
Miguel Mejía faced the judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Wednesday in San José. In a wheelchair, he...
Bioethics

US Stem Cell Scientist Punished for Fraud

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.07.2012
Stem cell research fraud continues, though not as spectacularly as in the lab of disgraced South Korean Hwang Woo-suk. A...
Stem Cells

Sperm Precursor Cells Created in Lab

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.07.2012

The moment when scientists will be able to create artificial sperm from a skin cell is drawing closer. Scientists at...

Other Countries

Where Is the Path Forward for Forensics? Part II

By Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post | 09.07.2012
Donald Eugene Gates, convicted of murder in Washington D.C., would spend 28 years in prison before he was exonerated in...
Civil Society

Weird Science: The Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biology

By Jeff Conant, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2012 | 09.06.2012
In 1971, a microbiologist named Ananda Chakrabarty patented a bacteria genetically engineered to degrade and destroy crude oil. The next...
Bioethics