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

Womb for sale debate surfaces in Nepal

By Times of India, The Times of India [Nepal] | 03.08.2011

Almost nine years after India's Supreme Court gave the legal nod to commercial surrogacy, the issue has finally surfaced in...

Assisted Reproduction

Companies claim genetic tests show kids' sports abilities

By Lindsey Tanner, Salon | 03.08.2011

 Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Marketers of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits...

Biotech & Pharma

FDA panel wants doctors to supervise genetic testing

By Andrew Zajac, The Seattle Times | 03.08.2011
Members of a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel convened to consider new government regulation of genetic testing offered directly...
Biotech & Pharma

IVF parents travel overseas to pick baby's sex

By Amy Corderoy, The Sydney Morning Herald | 03.08.2011
A leading IVF clinic is helping clients choose the sex of their baby by sending them to an overseas clinic...
Other Countries

IVF odds of success are decent; twin births still common

By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times | 03.07.2011
IVF treatment continues to be a popular choice for making babies. The treatment, known formally as in vitro fertilization, is...
Genetic Selection

Reprogrammed Stem Cells Are Rife with Mutations

By Emily Singer, Technology Review | 03.03.2011

Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells harbor a number of genetic mutations, some of which appear in...

Stem Cells

U.S. Bioethics Panel to Review Clinical Trials Around the World

By Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider | 03.01.2011

Prompted by concerns about an unethical U.S.-sponsored study in the 1940s, bioethics advisers to President Barack Obama formed an international...

Human Rights

Gene Therapy Against HIV Not a Proven Cure, Experts Say

By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay News | 03.01.2011

TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Experts are reacting with cautious optimism to the announcement Monday that researchers reconfigured immune...

Human Genetic Modification