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

Will women one day father children?

By Sheryl Ubelacker, The Globe and Mail | 06.18.2009
In the new Canadian film The Baby Formula, opening later this week, two lesbians become pregnant using sperm derived from...
Stem Cells

NY to pay for eggs for research

By Elie Dolgin, The Scientist | 06.17.2009
New York has become the first and only state to opt to pay women for eggs donated for human embryonic...
Stem Cells

Pluripotency: the third option?

By Elie Dolgin, The Scientist | 06.16.2009
The excitement surrounding cellular reprogramming and the possibility of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the...
Stem Cells

Womb for Hire

By Raissa Robles, Newsbreak | 06.15.2009

The story almost reads like a fairy tale: no sooner had the child been born than it was taken from...

Other Countries

The Color of Our Genes

By Osagie Obasogie, Science Progress | 06.15.2009

A group of faculty members from Stanford University recently published a set of guidelines for using race in human genetics...

Racial Justice

U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians

By Sam Roberts, New York Times | 06.15.2009
The trend is buried deep in United States census data: seemingly minute deviations in the proportion of boys and girls...
Genetic Selection

Women 'unaware of risks of older motherhood' , report will warn

By Kate Devlin, The Telegraph | 06.13.2009
Mandish Dhanjal, a consultant obstetrician, said that the example of celebrity older mothers, such as Madonna and Holly Hunter, gave...
Assisted Reproduction

Scientists: Long-promised '$1,000 Gene Sequence' less than two years off

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 06.12.2009

They'll be as small as your microwave and cheaper than your laptop. And the powerful tools - future gene sequencing...

Biotech & Pharma