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

Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 11.02.2011

Oregon Health & Science University's patent on a procedure to clone stem cells caps off a decade of work for...

Patents & Other IP

Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 11.02.2011

Oregon Health & Science University's patent on a procedure to clone stem cells caps off a decade of work for...

Patents & Other IP

Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis

By Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska and David Glovin, Bloomberg Markets Magazineine | 11.01.2011

Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite...

Human Rights

Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis

By Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska and David Glovin, Bloomberg Markets Magazineine | 11.01.2011

Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite...

Human Rights

Kidney Broker Said to Use Johns Hopkins in Organ-Traffic Case

By David Glovin, David Voreacos and Michael Smith, Bloomberg Businessweek | 11.01.2011
An Israeli man who brokered black-market sales of human kidneys in the U.S. arranged transplant surgeries at medical centers, including...
U.S. Federal

Kidney Broker Said to Use Johns Hopkins in Organ-Traffic Case

By David Glovin, David Voreacos and Michael Smith, Bloomberg Businessweek | 11.01.2011
An Israeli man who brokered black-market sales of human kidneys in the U.S. arranged transplant surgeries at medical centers, including...
U.S. Federal

Now Credit Card Companies Want Your DNA

By Martha C. White, Time: Moneyland | 10.27.2011
A Wall Street Journal article earlier this week reported that Visa and MasterCard are exploring new ways to take data...
Genomics

Now Credit Card Companies Want Your DNA

By Martha C. White, Time: Moneyland | 10.27.2011
A Wall Street Journal article earlier this week reported that Visa and MasterCard are exploring new ways to take data...
Genomics