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...

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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...

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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...

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Retracted paper rattles Korean science

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 04.01.2009
Nature this week is retracting a 2000 paper that promised an advance in diabetes treatment using gene therapy. Confusion surrounding...
Human Genetic Modification

As Egg Donations Mount, So Do Health Concerns

By Catherine Elton, Time | 03.31.2009
At the time, donating her eggs to an infertile couple seemed like the perfect solution for Marilyn Drake's money troubles...
Assisted Reproduction

California stem cell program needs a new treatment

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 03.30.2009
In the annals of wrongheaded things done with the best intentions, the California stem cell program has always been in...
U.S. States

Study: Two IVF Embryos May Offer No Better Odds Than One

By Tiffany Sharples, Time | 03.30.2009
As the case of the so-called Octomom continues to spur outrage and debate over the use of in vitro fertilization...
Assisted Reproduction

To Sketch a Thief: Genes Draw Likeness of Suspects

By Gautam Naik, Wall Street Journal | 03.30.2009
The old-fashioned police sketch is getting a makeover.

Researchers are identifying genes that give rise to a person's physical traits...
Genomics

'DNA bungle' haunts German police

By BBC, BBC News | 03.28.2009

Police in Germany have admitted that a woman they have been hunting for more than 15 years never in fact...

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CIRM Close-Hauled, Seeks Bonds to Sustain Headway

By Constance Holden, Science | 03.27.2009
With dramatic shifts in both the economic and political landscape for stem cell research, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...
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Beverly Hills surrogacy firm accused of fraud and theft

By Kimi Yoshino and Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 03.26.2009
For Francisco Egea Cerezuela and his wife, the answer to their dream of having a child was found on the...
Assisted Reproduction