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

Fetal Tests Spur Legal Battle

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 06.27.2012

Genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA from a pregnant woman's blood are arriving in a rush, giving parents powerful tools...

Genomics

FDA Report Faults Houston Stem-Cell Company

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 06.26.2012
The Sugar Land company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's unlicensed adult stem-cell procedure is rife with basic manufacturing problems...
Stem Cells

FDA Report Faults Houston Stem-Cell Company

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 06.26.2012
The Sugar Land company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's unlicensed adult stem-cell procedure is rife with basic manufacturing problems...
Stem Cells

Bodies with Histories

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 06.25.2012

Have you heard this one? A sociologist, a lawyer, and a biologist walk into a bar, scoot their stools up...

Bioethics

Bodies with Histories

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 06.25.2012

Have you heard this one? A sociologist, a lawyer, and a biologist walk into a bar, scoot their stools up...

Bioethics

Stop and Frisk -- and DNA Test?

By Jason Silverstein, Huffington Post | 06.22.2012
Taking DNA samples from people arrested, but not convicted of a crime, has the potential to make our already unfair...
Racial Justice

Stop and Frisk -- and DNA Test?

By Jason Silverstein, Huffington Post | 06.22.2012
Taking DNA samples from people arrested, but not convicted of a crime, has the potential to make our already unfair...
Racial Justice

Judge Says Montana Parents Can Sue Over Lack of Genetic Testing

By The Associated Press, Great Falls Tribune | 06.21.2012
A Montana couple who say they would have terminated a pregnancy if they had known their daughter would be born...
Genomics