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...

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College or Funeral is Mother's Wish Denied on DNA Results

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.13.2012

Camilla Grondahl asked genetics researcher Gholson Lyon a simple, heartbreaking question: Was she carrying a lethal gene that might kill...

Genomics

College or Funeral is Mother's Wish Denied on DNA Results

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.13.2012

Camilla Grondahl asked genetics researcher Gholson Lyon a simple, heartbreaking question: Was she carrying a lethal gene that might kill...

Genomics

A Crime Against Motherhood: Involuntary sterilization was a horrifying exercise in genetic engineering

By Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin, Los Angeles Times | 05.13.2012
My mom's first day of motherhood was one of the happiest of her life. It was also one of the...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

So Eager for Grandchildren, They’re Paying the Egg-Freezing Clinic

By Elissa Gootman, New York Times | 05.13.2012

At the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by freezing...

Assisted Reproduction

A Crime Against Motherhood: Involuntary sterilization was a horrifying exercise in genetic engineering

By Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin, Los Angeles Times | 05.13.2012
My mom's first day of motherhood was one of the happiest of her life. It was also one of the...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

So Eager for Grandchildren, They’re Paying the Egg-Freezing Clinic

By Elissa Gootman, New York Times | 05.13.2012

At the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by freezing...

Assisted Reproduction

£750 for your eggs

By Neil Sears and Jenny Hope, Daily Mail | 05.11.2012

Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors.

Leaflets were stuck...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

£750 for your eggs

By Neil Sears and Jenny Hope, Daily Mail | 05.11.2012

Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors.

Leaflets were stuck...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights