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 Daughter’s Return

By The Economist, The Economist | 12.31.2011

A glimmer of hope in the sad tale of sex-selective abortion in India

THE march of sex-selective abortion in Asia...

Other Countries

American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News Blog | 12.29.2011
An American university scientist was arrested on 27 December, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies.

The...
Stem Cells

American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News Blog | 12.29.2011
An American university scientist was arrested on 27 December, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies.

The...
Stem Cells

Cloning vs. Conservation

By John Rennie, Smart Planet | 12.20.2011
Suppose you knew the rain forests would be totally destroyed in 20 years, no matter what. But you also knew...
Environmentalism

Cloning vs. Conservation

By John Rennie, Smart Planet | 12.20.2011
Suppose you knew the rain forests would be totally destroyed in 20 years, no matter what. But you also knew...
Environmentalism

New Study Links Egg Harvesting for IVF to Ovarian Cancer

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 12.20.2011
For years, infertility specialists have insisted in scientific and public arenas that a key IVF procedure known as ovarian stimulation—chemically...
Technologies

UNFPA Armenia Presented the “Prevalence and Reasons of Sex Selective Abortions in Armenia” Report

By Public Radio of Armenia, Public Radio of Armenia | 12.19.2011

Prof. Razmik Abrahamyan, Director of Institute of Reproductive Health, Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Mr. Garik Hayrapetyan, UNFPA Armenia Assistant...

Other Countries

Sperm Donor in Fremont Feeling Heat from Feds

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.19.2011
Last month Trent Arsenault got three women pregnant - a new record for the Fremont man and father of 14...
Assisted Reproduction