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

Toward a More Nuanced Science Journalism

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.29.2011

Last week, Chicago Tribune reporter Monica Eng wrote about the latest chapter in the debate over genetically modified foods: their...

Technologies

Illinois Bill Could Allow State To Collect DNA From Those Presumed Innocent, Marking Nationwide Shift

By Will Guzzardi, Washington Post | 05.26.2011
If Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs House Bill 3238, recently sent to his desk by the state legislature, it will...
Civil Society

Rights watchdog calls for halt to DNA testing

By CBC News, CBC News [Canada] | 05.25.2011

Canada's civil liberties watchdog is calling on investigators in the Sonia Varaschin murder investigation to "immediately stop" voluntary DNA sampling...

Genomics

Re-Evaluating Risks and Benefits in Human Subjects Research

By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.25.2011

Modern bioethics is grounded in four basic principles: respect for persons (i.e. autonomy), beneficence, nonmalificence and justice. In a recent...

Technologies

As Wealth and Literacy Rise in India, Report Says, So Do Sex-Selective Abortions

By Jim Yardley, The New York Times | 05.24.2011
India’s increasing wealth and improving literacy are apparently contributing to a national crisis of “missing girls,” with the number of...
Genetic Selection

California officials nominate new board chairman for stem cell agency

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 05.20.2011
California Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Gov. Jerry Brown today nominated Jonathan Thomas to succeed Robert Klein as chairman of the...
Fact Sheets

Landmark ruling ends sperm and egg donor anonymity in B.C.

By Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail | 05.19.2011
People who might never have known who their biological mother or father was will have that opportunity now that a...
Assisted Reproduction

High Court judge approves commercial surrogacy

By BBC, BBC News | 05.19.2011

Laws in the UK are designed to try to prevent such arrangements, but Mr Justice Hedley said his paramount concern...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights