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

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks

By Michelle Kessel and Jessica Hopper, Rock Center | 11.07.2011
Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in...
Human Rights

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks

By Michelle Kessel and Jessica Hopper, Rock Center | 11.07.2011
Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in...
Human Rights

MBTA to swap spit with FBI database

By Richard Weir, Boston Herald | 11.05.2011
DNA profiles of saliva evidence taken as part of a new transit police crackdown on spitting assaults against MBTA workers...
Genomics

MBTA to swap spit with FBI database

By Richard Weir, Boston Herald | 11.05.2011
DNA profiles of saliva evidence taken as part of a new transit police crackdown on spitting assaults against MBTA workers...
Genomics

Doctors Offer Fertility, Other Treatments as Contest Prizes

By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel | 11.04.2011

Attention patients: Bring the most Internet viewers to our Facebook page and win a free … pregnancy?

Doctors and medical...

Bioethics

Doctors Offer Fertility, Other Treatments as Contest Prizes

By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel | 11.04.2011

Attention patients: Bring the most Internet viewers to our Facebook page and win a free … pregnancy?

Doctors and medical...

Bioethics

Mengele in America

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 11.02.2011
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes...
Biotech & Pharma

Mengele in America

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 11.02.2011
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes...
Biotech & Pharma