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

Genes Now Tell Doctors Secrets They Can’t Utter

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 08.25.2012
Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan stared at a printout of gene sequences from a man with cancer, a subject in one...
Genomics

Forensic Test Can Predict Hair and Eye Colour From DNA

By Paul Rincon, BBC News | 08.24.2012
Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye colour of a possible suspect using...
Human Rights

A Legal Win for Stem Cell Research, but Case May Not Be Over

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 08.24.2012

A U.S. appeals court today upheld the legality of federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)—the latest in...

Bioethics

Undetectable Stem Cell Treatment Could be the Wave of the Performance-Enhancement Future

By Eric Adelson, Yahoo News | 08.24.2012
It was a good week for the drug police. Lance Armstrong dropped his fight against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, and...
Bioethics

Stem Cells: A Culture War Gone Quiet

By Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon | 08.23.2012
While a draft plank in the Republican Party’s platform supporting a constitutional amendment banning abortion has gotten plenty of attention...
Biopolitics

Who's Your Daddy? DNA Clinic Gives Answers, Sparks Concerns

By Lily Kuo, Reuters | 08.22.2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mobile DNA testing facility that looks more like a motor home than a medical clinic...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Vt. High Court to Weigh Pre-Conviction DNA Testing

By Dave Gram, The Boston Globe | 08.20.2012
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court has been asked to rule on the constitutionality of a 2009 law allowing the...
U.S. States

Madison Heights Woman Recalls Forced Sterilization at Training Center

By Ray Reed, The News and Advance | 08.18.2012
Like many other residents of the institution once known as the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, Sarah Pack Wiley apparently...
Eugenics