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

Court Dismisses Suit Over Unethical US Experiments

By Richard Monastersky, Nature News Blog | 06.15.2012
A US court has dismissed a lawsuit by Guatemalan citizens against US officials in connection with unethical medical experiments conducted...
Other Countries

1,400 Girls Not Born in Armenia Annually Because of Sex-Selective Abortions - Report

By News.am, News.am | 06.15.2012

YEREVAN.- The report issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says 1,400 girls are not born in Armenia every...

Other Countries

Genome Test Slammed for Assessing ‘Racial Purity’

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 06.12.2012
Officials in Hungary united this week to condemn ongoing ethnic violence and anti-Semitic attacks, including an assault on the former...
Other Countries

Genetic Testing For Color Vision Makes Commercial Debut for Military Applications

By Dan Buckland, medGadget | 06.12.2012
Possibly heralding a new era in the use of genetic testing for hiring decisions, Genevolve (Albuquerque, NM) announced at the...
Genomics

Nuffield Council Gives Green Light to the Prevention of Inherited Mitochondrial Disease

By Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews | 06.12.2012

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published an ethical review of new techniques which aim to prevent the transmission of...

Genomics

First Gay Couple to Become Fathers in UK Spend £65K to Ensure Next Child is a Girl

By Sadie Whitelocks, The Daily Mail (UK) | 06.12.2012
Britain’s first gay fathers have have spent £65,000 traveling to the U.S. so they can undergo IVF treatment which will...
Bioethics

Genome Test Slammed for Assessing ‘Racial Purity’

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 06.12.2012
Officials in Hungary united this week to condemn ongoing ethnic violence and anti-Semitic attacks, including an assault on the former...
Other Countries

Genetic Testing For Color Vision Makes Commercial Debut for Military Applications

By Dan Buckland, medGadget | 06.12.2012
Possibly heralding a new era in the use of genetic testing for hiring decisions, Genevolve (Albuquerque, NM) announced at the...
Genomics