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

How Our Genetic Maps Are Being Sold to the Highest Bidder

By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 06.06.2012
Who owns our bodies? One of the weirder cases exploring this bioethical question involved South Carolinian John Wood, whose leg...
Patents & Other IP

DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.06.2012

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from...

Genetic Selection

UW Researchers Map DNA of Fetus from Mom's Blood

By Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times | 06.06.2012

Researchers at the University of Washington have assembled the first comprehensive genetic map of an unborn child — a development...

Genomics

Ancestry Testing Goes for Pinpoint Accuracy

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 06.06.2012
Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State and national security adviser, ought to be a tough woman to surprise. Yet...
Bioethics

How Our Genetic Maps Are Being Sold to the Highest Bidder

By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 06.06.2012
Who owns our bodies? One of the weirder cases exploring this bioethical question involved South Carolinian John Wood, whose leg...
Patents & Other IP

DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.06.2012

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from...

Genetic Selection

UW Researchers Map DNA of Fetus from Mom's Blood

By Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times | 06.06.2012

Researchers at the University of Washington have assembled the first comprehensive genetic map of an unborn child — a development...

Genomics

Ancestry Testing Goes for Pinpoint Accuracy

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 06.06.2012
Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State and national security adviser, ought to be a tough woman to surprise. Yet...
Bioethics