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

Putting the Kids on Ice

By Kate Benson, The Standard | 10.18.2008
IT COST more than $3000 and was one of the more harrowing experiences of her life, but for Lesley Major...
Assisted Reproduction

Biotechs Confront Bankruptcy as Funding Evaporates

By Toni Clarke, Reuters UK | 10.17.2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The biotechnology sector looks likely to be hit by a wave of bankruptcies and failures as small...
Biotech & Pharma

General Assembly ban on all human cloning to be reconsidered by UN ethics panel

By UN News Centre, UN News Centre | 10.13.2008

The permissibility of therapeutic cloning will be the focus of a United Nations ethics panel later this month when it...

Global Governance

Stem Cell Promises, Obstacles Remain Four Years After Bill's Approval

By Sandy Kleffman, MediaNews | 10.12.2008
Four years after California residents captured worldwide attention by voting to spend $3 billion on stem cell research, many of...
U.S. States

Researchers find Easier Way to Make Stem Cells

By Thomson Financial News, Thomson Financial News | 10.12.2008

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Researchers trying to find ways to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells said...

Technologies

Stem Cell Generation from Ordinary Cells Now Safe

By Reuters, Reuters | 10.10.2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese researchers who invented a way to make powerful stem cells out of ordinary cells say they...

Technologies

Cloned animals should not be farmed for food, say consumers

By Sean Poulter, Daily Mail | 10.09.2008
Cloned animals and their offspring should not be farmed for food according to the overwhelming majority of consumers, an EU...
Animal Biotechnologies

IVF boom: British births top 10,000 in a year for the first time

By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail | 10.09.2008
The number of women having successful IVF treatment in the UK has topped 10,000 for the first time.

There were...
Assisted Reproduction