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

Designing the $100,000 baby

By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, MSN Money | 09.23.2008

Video clips available at MSN.

The convention hall at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's 2007 annual meeting, in...

Assisted Reproduction

Three more blind patients helped by gene therapy

By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 09.23.2008
Three more patients treated with an experimental gene therapy approach have reported better vision, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in...
Human Genetic Modification

Stem cell backers question where McCain stands

By Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press | 09.22.2008
Some of the nation's top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will...
Biopolitics

Google Co-Founder Has Genetic Code Linked to Parkinson’s

By Miguel Helft, New York Times | 09.18.2008
Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, said Thursday that he has a gene mutation that increases his likelihood of contracting Parkinson’s...
Biotech & Pharma

Stem Cell Research in the US Presidential Election

By Jesse Reynolds, Genetic Crossroads | 09.18.2008
Stem Cells Enter the Presidential Election; Doublespeak Follows

We continue to hope that stem cell research won't be used as...

Google, Microsoft pull sex ads after India legal threat

By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 09.18.2008

Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and other services considered illegal in India after...

Genetic Selection

Surrogacy is soaring in India

By Alifiya Khan, Hindustan Times | 09.18.2008
After five years of marriage, Arjun and Aarti Sahu (names changed) were about to give up trying to get a...
Other Countries

FDA to review genetically engineered farm animals

By AP, Associated Press | 09.18.2008

Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. The government said it will start considering proposals to...

Animal Biotechnologies