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

Gene Pioneer Venter Takes Another Step Toward Synthetic Life

By Rob Waters, Bloomberg | 08.20.2009
A team led by J. Craig Venter, the scientist who headed a private effort to map the human genome in...
Biotech & Pharma

Geron: FDA delays 1st trial of stem cell treatment

By AP, Associated Press | 08.17.2009

Regulators are delaying a trial of an embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury, drug developer Geron Corp. said...

Stem Cells

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 08.17.2009
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been...
Human Rights

What Kind of Bioethics Council Do We Need?

By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 08.17.2009

Bioethics councils have come in many shapes and sizes, with different mandates, memberships, and outcomes. What kind of bioethics council...

Bioethics

Dog Cloning Center to Open Next Year

By Kim Tong-hyung, Korea Times | 08.13.2009
RNL Bio, a Seoul-based biotech firm, plans to open a research center for canine cloning early next year.

By 2013...
Animal Biotechnologies

The Battle to Patent Your Genes

By Marcy Darnovsky and Jesse Reynolds, The American Interest (September - October 2009) | 08.13.2009

April 12, 1955 was a day of celebration. Across the United States, church bells rang, sirens blew, and people poured...

Civil Society

Cost of Decoding a Genome Is Lowered

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 08.11.2009
A Stanford engineer has invented a new technology for decoding DNA and used it to decode his own genome for...
Genomics

In China, DNA tests on kids ID genetic gifts, careers

By Emily Chang, CNN | 08.05.2009
At the Chongqing Children's Palace, experts are hoping to revolutionize child-rearing with the help of science. About 30 children aged...
Genomics