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

The Plot to Create Britain’s Super Race

By Jonathan Freedland, The Telegraph [UK] | 02.12.2012
At first glance, it is an utterly benign and heart-warming story, a tale of child-rescue and salvation, of friendship across...
Genetic Selection

The World's Baby Factory

By Anuj Chopra, Foreign Policy | 02.10.2012
KOLHAPUR, India — Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible...
Assisted Reproduction

The World's Baby Factory

By Anuj Chopra, Foreign Policy | 02.10.2012
KOLHAPUR, India — Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible...
Assisted Reproduction

IVF Clinics Told to Cut Multiple Births to 10%

By BBC, BBC | 02.09.2012

IVF clinics have been told that no more than 10% of births should be twins or triplets by regulators.

The...

Technologies

Report Finds US Slow to Implement Synthetic Biology Policies

By Meredith Wadman, Nature News Blog | 02.08.2012
More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington DC.  But the Woodrow Wilson...
U.S. Federal

Report Finds US Slow to Implement Synthetic Biology Policies

By Meredith Wadman, Nature News Blog | 02.08.2012
More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington DC.  But the Woodrow Wilson...
U.S. Federal

Threatened Fertility: are Fertility Clinic Success Rates Accurate?

By Global News, Global News | 02.08.2012

TORONTO - Many couples struggling with infertility look to fertility-assisted reproductive technologies to conceive a child. When evaluating fertility clinics...

Technologies

Should People Know About the Results of Their Genome Screening?

By Kim Carollo, ABC News | 02.03.2012

If you were at higher risk for developing a condition like Alzheimer's disease or breast cancer, would you want to...

Genomics