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

NC Bill Supports Compensation for Eugenics Victims

By Martha Wagooner, New Observer | 05.16.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Victims of North Carolina's decades-long forced sterilization program would receive $50,000 each under a bill filed Wednesday...

Racial Justice

NC Bill Supports Compensation for Eugenics Victims

By Martha Wagooner, New Observer | 05.16.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Victims of North Carolina's decades-long forced sterilization program would receive $50,000 each under a bill filed Wednesday...

Racial Justice

Big Promises Backed by Bad Theory

By Eric Hoffman and Stuart Newman, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.15.2012

Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent...

Biotech & Pharma

Big Promises Backed by Bad Theory

By Eric Hoffman and Stuart Newman, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.15.2012

Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent...

Biotech & Pharma

In Choosing a Sperm Donor, a Roll of the Genetic Dice

By Jacqueline Mroz, New York Times | 05.14.2012

Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a...

Assisted Reproduction

DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 05.14.2012

Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act...

Genomics