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

Conservation and Eugenics: The environmental movement's dirty secret

By Charles Wohlforth, Orion Magazine | 06.24.2010
THE RAIN HAD JUST STOPPED in the little eastern Kansas town of Osawatomie when thirty thousand people, gathered in an...
Genetic Selection

DNA database has 100,000 names

By DutchNews, DutchNews | 06.22.2010

The DNA database operated by the Dutch forensic institute NFI has over 100,000 names, the organisation said on Tuesday.

And...

Other Countries

Dating Site Creates Online Sperm and Egg Bank

By Jessica Ramirez, Newsweek | 06.21.2010

Who doesn't love a pretty baby? According to one company, the better question might be who doesn't want one? The...

Genetic Selection

The case for and against the patenting of genes

By Faye Flam, Philadelphia Enquirer | 06.21.2010
In 1998, Penn geneticists Arupa Ganguly and Haig Kazazian were ordered to stop offering women a test for genetic mutations...
Patents & Other IP

"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The Huffington Post | 06.18.2010

Ten years ago this month, we were definitively told that race is scientifically invalid, supposedly ending centuries of debate over...

Genomics

Biology 2.0

By The Economist, The Economist | 06.17.2010

Ten years ago, on June 26th 2000, a race ended. The result was declared a dead heat and both runners...

Technologies

Fertility treatment tied to risk of cerebral palsy

By Reuters, Reuters | 06.16.2010

A new study confirms that children conceived via infertility treatment may have a higher-than-average risk of cerebral palsy -- explained...

Technologies

Awaiting the Genome Payoff

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 06.15.2010
NORTH WALES, Pa. - At Merck's "automated biotechnology facility" here, robot arms adapted from automobile factories deftly shuttle plates containing...
Biotech & Pharma