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

China tries to sterilise 10,000 parents over one-child rule

By Jane Macartney, The Times (London) | 04.17.2010

Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise - by force if...

Human Rights

Family become first to have DNA sequenced for non-medical reasons

By Mark Henderson, The Times (London) | 04.16.2010

A family of four has become the first in which every member's genome has been sequenced for non-medical reasons, opening...

Bioethics

Nuclei swap to stop disease?

By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 04.14.2010
A technique may one day prevent something that is currently unpreventable -- the transmission of mitochondrial diseases from mother to...
Genetic Selection

3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues

By Brandon Keim, Wired Science | 04.14.2010
Researchers have produced human embryos containing DNA from three people, a biotechnological proof-of-principle with profound medical and ethical implications.

To...
Bioethics

Kids With Rare Condition Lack Racial Prejudice

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay News / Business Week | 04.13.2010
Children with a rare condition called Williams syndrome appear to lack social fear, and with it, racial prejudice, a new...
Racial Justice

Delay revealing gender of fetus to curb sex selection: Experts

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.12.2010
Two Canadian medical experts are calling for new guidelines that would bar doctors from telling parents the sex of their...
Genetic Selection

How Gene Patents Harm Innovation

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 04.09.2010
A New York judge's opinion to toss out the patents on two breast cancer genes paves the way for high-tech...
Biotech & Pharma

The dangers of growing DNA databases

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Los Angeles Times | 04.09.2010

President Obama may have given credence to a relatively new but questionable law enforcement practice that the rest of the...

Human Rights