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

Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 01.19.2012

That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men...

Genetic Selection

Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 01.19.2012

That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men...

Genetic Selection

S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug

By Associated Foreign Press, Mysinchew.com | 01.19.2012
South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved...
Biotech & Pharma

S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug

By Associated Foreign Press, Mysinchew.com | 01.19.2012
South Korea's government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world's first approved...
Biotech & Pharma

'Three-Person IVF' Technique Moves Closer

By BBC, BBC News | 01.19.2012

It replaces defective genetic material in the egg in order to eliminate rare mitochondrial diseases.

After the consultation into "three-person...

Assisted Reproduction

Canadian Doctor’s Suggestion to Delay Revealing Baby’s Sex Ignites Controversy over ‘Feticide’

By Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star | 01.16.2012

Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat...

Genetic Selection

Canadian Doctor’s Suggestion to Delay Revealing Baby’s Sex Ignites Controversy over ‘Feticide’

By Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star | 01.16.2012

Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat...

Genetic Selection

Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian [UK] | 01.14.2012
Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding...
Synthetic Biology