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

Son Preference and Sex Selection in America: Why It Persists and How We Can Change It

By Sujatha Jesudason and Anat Shenker-Osorio, RH Reality Check | 05.31.2012

Son preference, missing girls, sex selection: We may seek to label these Chinese or Indian issues, but they exist here...

Assisted Reproduction

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

Son Preference and Sex Selection in America: Why It Persists and How We Can Change It

By Sujatha Jesudason and Anat Shenker-Osorio, RH Reality Check | 05.31.2012

Son preference, missing girls, sex selection: We may seek to label these Chinese or Indian issues, but they exist here...

Assisted Reproduction

Gene Test Results to Be Passed on Without Consent

By Anna Patty, Sydney Morning Herald | 05.30.2012
People tested for predisposition to a genetic disease will no longer have a say in whether their results are given...
Genomics

Gene Test Results to Be Passed on Without Consent

By Anna Patty, Sydney Morning Herald | 05.30.2012
People tested for predisposition to a genetic disease will no longer have a say in whether their results are given...
Genomics

Seoul National University Professor Suspected of Stem Cell Study Fabrication

By Yi Whan-woo, The Korea Times | 05.29.2012
A stem cell researcher at Seoul National University (SNU) is suspected of fabricating 14 studies submitted to international scientific journals...
Stem Cells

Seoul National University Professor Suspected of Stem Cell Study Fabrication

By Yi Whan-woo, The Korea Times | 05.29.2012
A stem cell researcher at Seoul National University (SNU) is suspected of fabricating 14 studies submitted to international scientific journals...
Stem Cells