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

Is It Time to Give Up on Therapeutic Cloning? A Q&A with Ian Wilmut

By Sally Lehrman, Scientific American | 07.22.2008
Ian Wilmut, famed for creating Dolly the cloned sheep, announced recently that he is abandoning the technique to concentrate on...
Biotech & Pharma

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

By Alex Philippidis, BioRegion News | 07.21.2008
The California state Senator who authored a governance and drug-access bill opposed by the state's stem-cell agency told BioRegion News...
Stem Cells

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?

By Jason Felch and Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times | 07.20.2008
State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with...
U.S. Federal

What You Should Know Before You Spit Into That Test Tube

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 07.20.2008
Jeffrey Gulcher had no reason to think much about prostate cancer. He was just 48, and the disease typically strikes...
Genomics

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday | 07.18.2008
Over the next few generations, the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) may become as common as amniocentesis, predicted David...
Assisted Reproduction

Fame-courting biotech running short of cash

By Todd Wallack, Boston Globe | 07.17.2008
For the past decade, Advanced Cell Technology Inc. has claimed one spectacular success after another.

The Worcester biotech firm said...
Stem Cells

Stem cell Roundup

By Jesse Reynolds, Genetic Crossroads | 07.16.2008
Letter of support for SB 1565
The Center for Genetics and Society sent this letter to the California Assembly Appropriations...

The Ethics of Characterizing Difference: Guiding Principles on Using Racial Categories in Human Genetics

By Sandra Soo-Jin Lee et. al. , Genome Biology | 07.15.2008

Abstract

We are a multidisciplinary group of Stanford faculty who propose ten principles to guide the use of racial and...

Racial Justice