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

Whistleblower Now Reluctant Biotech Safety Spokeswoman

By Lee Howard, The Day | 04.01.2012
Former Pfizer Inc. molecular biologist Becky McClain calls herself a "reluctant activist" now that she has become a national spokeswoman...
Synthetic Biology

Calls for Inquiry Into 'Astonishing' DNA Error

By Paul Peachey, The Independent | 03.31.2012
The major blunder that sent detectives on the Gareth Williams inquiry down a blind alley for more than a year...
Genomics

Government Shutters Agency That Oversees Canada’s Fertility and Assisted Reproduction Industry

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 03.30.2012

 It has triggered a boom in risky multiple births, created a generation of children with anonymous sperm-donor parents and spawned...

Assisted Reproduction

Britain's Biobank Is Open for Business

By Angela Saini, Science | 03.29.2012
The UK Biobank, a repository containing samples and health data from half a million people, is finally open for business...
Genomics

Plan to merge labs for biofuel research criticized

By David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.29.2012

(03-30) 16:02 PDT RICHMOND -- A plan by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to merge its energy labs into a major new...

Fact Sheets

Canadian women richly rewarded for donating eggs

By CTVNews.ca Staff, CTV News | 03.27.2012
For the last eight years, it's been illegal in Canada to pay for human eggs or sperm. But the practice...
Other Countries

Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

By Emily Smith Beitiks, San Jose Mercury News | 03.27.2012

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently announced a proposal to build a facility in Richmond at which synthetic biology research will...

Synthetic Biology

Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

By Emily Smith Beitiks, San Jose Mercury News | 03.27.2012
This article is available at the San Jose Mercury News.
Synthetic Biology