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

Maryland Law Enforcement Agencies Still Collecting DNA Samples

By Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun | 04.25.2012

Police around Maryland said Wednesday that they would continue to collect DNA samples when suspects are arrested for violent crimes...

Human Rights

Md. High Court Strikes Down DNA Collection at Arrest

By Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun | 04.24.2012

Maryland's highest court on Tuesday blocked police in most cases from collecting DNA samples when they arrest suspects in violent...

Genomics

FDA Proposes Rules for Nanotechnology in Food

By Mathew Perrone, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.21.2012
(04-21) 07:40 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in...
U.S. Federal

Woman Who Ran Surrogacy Company Arrested on Fraud Charges

By Rosalio Ahumada, Bellingham Herald | 04.20.2012

MODESTO, CALIF. - Federal authorities Friday arrested a woman on suspicion of defrauding more than $2 million from prospective parents...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Synthetic Genetic Evolution

By Ruth Williams, The Scientist | 04.19.2012
Synthetic genetic polymers, broadly referred to as XNAs, can replicate and evolve just like their naturally occurring counterparts, DNA and...
Synthetic Biology

IVF Babies May Face Later Cardiac Risks

By Chris Kaiser, MedPage Today | 04.19.2012
Children conceived using assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization, may be at risk for premature cardiovascular disease, a small...
Assisted Reproduction

Baby Sex Selection Ad Targets Indo-Canadians

By Annie Burns-Pieper, CBC News | 04.17.2012

A Washington-based reproductive clinic is advertising gender selection services in a Canadian newspaper that targets South Asian communities, CBC News...

Eugenics

Studying Bioethics at Scandal-Plagued Universities

By Carl Elliott, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 04.17.2012
Why should students study bioethics at a university plagued with bioethical scandals? That’s the uncomfortable question here in Minnesota, where...
Bioethics