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

The Exonerator

By Jennifer S. Forsyth and Leslie Eaton, Wall Street Journal | 11.15.2008

Craig Watkins may be the only prosecutor in America who is making his name getting people out of prison.

As...

U.S. States

Conference explores Bay Area's hot new field of synthetic biology

By Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 11.14.2008
Bay Area futurists and their fans are gathering Saturday in a coming-of-age celebration for the fledgling field of synthetic biology...
Civil Society

How ovary transplants 'will let women have babies at any age'

By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.12.2008

Women could put off having children into their 40s and beyond by having an ovary transplant, the pioneering surgeon behind...

Assisted Reproduction

Now: The Rest of the Genome

By Carl Zimmer, New York Times | 11.11.2008
Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would spend a day without ever saying the word...
Genomics

The new fertility treatment that can double a woman's chances of getting pregnant

By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2008
Fertility doctors are doubling the pregnancy rate for childless women using a 'kinder' form of treatment.

The technique - In...
Assisted Reproduction

Stem cells made from brain tissues by Japanese researchers

By Richard Alleyne, Telegraph | 11.06.2008
Stem cells taken from human embryos were used to form tissues of the cerebral cortex, the supreme control tower of...
Stem Cells

African, Asian join library of genomics

By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 11.06.2008

Laboratories have for the first time sequenced the full genetic code of an African and an Asian in what amounts...

Technologies

An Emerging Consensus

By Richard Hayes, Science Progress | 11.06.2008

The new human biotechnologies have the potential for both great good and great harm. If used responsibly they could lead...

Global Governance