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

Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions In Vitro Practices

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post | 01.29.2012

LUTZ, Fla. — As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is...

Stem Cells

How a Genetically Engineered Super-Virus Spread – Through the Media

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 01.26.2012

In mid-September last year at the fourth annual European Scientific Working group on Influenza meeting in Malta, Ron Fouchier of...

Technologies

Sterilized by North Carolina, She Felt Raped Once More

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times | 01.25.2012

Reporting from Raleigh, N.C.— Elaine Riddick was a confused and frightened 14-year-old. She was poor and black, the daughter of...

Eugenics

With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks

By Cornelia Dean, New York Times | 01.25.2012

Tiny substances called nanomaterials have moved into the marketplace over the last decade, in products as varied as cosmetics, clothing...

Environmentalism

Fitness 2.0: It's Genes Versus Gym

By Fiona MacDonald, Sydney Morning Herald | 01.25.2012

Not every fitness regime will have the same impact on all types of bodies, but just how personal does a...

Genomics