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

Cloning Alternative May Help Save White Rhino

By Roger Highfield, Telegraph | 04.18.2008
A novel kind of test tube reproduction is to be used to help save one of the world's rarest animals...
Stem Cells

U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects' DNA

By Ellen Nakashima and Spencer Hsu, Washington Post | 04.17.2008
The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and...
U.S. Federal

Leading Scientists Tell Politicians to Stop Interfering Over Ethics of Embryo Research

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 04.15.2008
Politicians have been warned not to block scientific inquiry into subjects such as stem cells and embryo research just because...
Biopolitics

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

By Richard Hayes, Washington Post | 04.15.2008

In an essay in Sunday's Outlook section, Dartmouth ethics professor Ronald Green asks us to consider a neo-eugenic future of...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Couples Could Win Right to Select Deaf Baby

By Richard Gray, Telegraph | 04.14.2008
Deaf couples could be allowed to use embryo-screening technology and choose to have a deaf child, after a climb-down by...
Disability Rights

On the Retail Frontier, Another Shop in SoHo for the Person Who Has Everything

By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times | 04.13.2008

Michael Hall said he was in SoHo on Saturday to do what people do in SoHo: meet friends, have a...

Biotech & Pharma

The Globalization of Baby-Making

By Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe | 04.11.2008

BY NOW we all have a story about a job outsourced beyond our reach in the global economy. My favorite...

Assisted Reproduction

The Curious Lives of Surrogates

By Lorraine Ali and and Raina Kelley, Newsweek | 04.07.2008
Jennifer Cantor, a 34-year-old surgical nurse from Huntsville, Ala., loves being pregnant. Not having children, necessarily-she has one, an 8-year-old...
Assisted Reproduction