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

Bill allows human egg, animal sperm research

By ABC News, ABC News | 03.26.2009

Legislation that would allow human eggs and animal sperm to be combined has been approved by the South Australian Parliament...

Animal Biotechnologies

Genetic embryo screening: Questions grow along with number of procedures

By Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune | 03.25.2009
Karin Cohn carries a genetic defect that led a half-dozen members of her family to develop early breast or ovarian...
Genetic Selection

IVF watchdog to warn of birth defect risks

By Aidan Jones, The Guardian | 03.21.2009
Couples seeking IVF treatment are to be warned for the first time that their children have a higher risk of...
Assisted Reproduction

Money woes reported at firms involved in surrogate births

By Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times | 03.21.2009
Two California-based firms involved in pairing infertile couples with surrogate mothers have stopped paying surrogates, raising fears about the status...
Assisted Reproduction

Stripped down embryo bill passes Georgia Senate

By Matt Schafer, Southern Voice | 03.20.2009
In the one of the last votes on the last day for a bill to pass from the state Senate...
LGBTQI

New stem cell regulations: By whose authority?

By Bryn Nelson, Nature Reports Stem Cells | 03.19.2009
Officials at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be kept busy for the next four months as they...
Stem Cells

Obama's stem cell policy is welcome change, but ethics are permanent feature of debate

By Jesse Reynolds, The Jurist online | 03.18.2009

President Obama's recent removal of his predecessor's stem cell policy is a welcome development. The Bush administration's restriction on the...

Stem Cells

Editorial: The right and wrong ways to prevent future ‘octomoms’

By USA Today, USA Today | 03.18.2009

The birth of octuplets in California seven weeks ago to a 33-year-old single mother through in vitro fertilization generated widespread...

Assisted Reproduction