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

N.C. House Approves Measure Compensating Victims of Eugenics Programs

By Lynn Bonner, News Observer | 06.05.2012
The state House approved in an 86-31 vote Tuesday a measure that will compensate people sterilized by a state authority...
Bioethics

N.C. House Approves Measure Compensating Victims of Eugenics Programs

By Lynn Bonner, News Observer | 06.05.2012
The state House approved in an 86-31 vote Tuesday a measure that will compensate people sterilized by a state authority...
Bioethics

European Crisis Bolsters Illegal Sales of Body Parts

By Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times | 06.01.2012
BELGRADE — Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation...
Human Rights

European Crisis Bolsters Illegal Sales of Body Parts

By Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times | 06.01.2012
BELGRADE — Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation...
Human Rights

Patenting and Personal Genomics: 23andMe Receives its First Patent, and Plenty of Questions

By Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 06.01.2012

Earlier this week 23andMe, the Silicon Valley-based personal genomics company, was awarded its first patent: US Patent Number 8,187,811, entitled...

Genomics

Patenting and Personal Genomics: 23andMe Receives its First Patent, and Plenty of Questions

By Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 06.01.2012

Earlier this week 23andMe, the Silicon Valley-based personal genomics company, was awarded its first patent: US Patent Number 8,187,811, entitled...

Genomics

Bill Banning ‘Sex-Selective Abortions’ Fails in the House

By Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post | 05.31.2012
A measure to ban abortions based on the sex of a child failed Thursday to earn enough support in the...
U.S. States

Personal-Genetics Company Patent Raises Hackles

By Monya Baker, Nature News Blog | 05.31.2012

The consumer-genetics testing company 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, announced its first patent this week, and some of its...
Patents & Other IP