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

Genomes! Get Your Genomes! Just $50K

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 06.10.2009

The price of getting your DNA sequenced just dropped in half--to $48,000.

With the new service, being offered by Illumina...
Biotech & Pharma

Biocriminology: Genetic links in a criminal chain

By Peter Monaghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 06.10.2009
The idea that a person's genes or hormones can lead to criminal behaviour has long been out of favour and...
Racial Justice

Off-the-Shelf Genetic Testing On Display

By Emily Singer, Technology Review | 06.09.2009
Want to share your genome online with friends and family? Find out how well you metabolize B vitamins? Determine if...
Biotech & Pharma

Fertility clinics to recruit more lesbians as egg donors for IVF

By Sophie Goodchild, Evening Standard | 06.09.2009
Fertility clinics are to target lesbians as egg donors after research found they were more likely than heterosexual women to...
LGBTQI

Normal, or Better Than Normal - at a High Cost

By Marcy Darnovsky, Psychology Today blogs | 06.03.2009

The vast majority of children who feel they are too tall or too short - or whose parents feel that...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Patenting human genes thwarts research, scientists say

By Robert S. Boyd, McClatchy Newspapers | 06.03.2009
WASHINGTON - Rapid advances in biology and genetics are raising fresh concerns about the spreading practice of patenting human genes...
Civil Society

Monkey see, monkey glow

By Tom Abate, Global Post | 06.02.2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Altering the genome in such a way that changes could be passed on to future generations is...
Animal Biotechnologies

California legislator introduces bill to address personal genome services

By Gail Javitt, Genetics and Public Policy Center newsletter | 05.31.2009
California state Senator Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) recently introduced SB 482, a bill to amend the California Business and...
Biotech & Pharma