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

Brave New World War

By Jamie Metzl, Democracy | 03.21.2008
In the fall of 2006, a BBC wire report speculated that global economic inequality and rapid advances in genetic engineering...
Civil Society

Scientists Urge Stem Cell Reality Check

By Suzanne Bohan, Alameda Times-Star | 03.20.2008
HALF MOON BAY - In an elegant hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, more than 30 of the world's leading stem...
Stem Cells

The Genome Gets Personal—Almost

By W. Gregory Feero, MD, PhD; Alan E. Guttmacher, MD; Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD , The Journal of the American Medical Association | 03.19.2008
It's the "Year of Perfect Vision," 2020. Amy, age 21 years, visits with her physician and elects to have complete...
Genomics

Put young children on DNA list, urge police

By Mark Townsend and Anushka Asthana , The Observer | 03.17.2008

Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in...

An Embryonic Disaster?

By Isabel Oakeshott and Sarah-Kate Templeton, The Sunday Times | 03.16.2008

When Liz Shipley was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) it came as little surprise. The 36-year-old from Newcastle had...

Animal Biotechnologies

Pre-natal Tests on Net a Threat

By Indo-Asian News Service, Indo-Asian News Service | 03.15.2008

New Delhi: The advent of Internet has emerged as a new threat as overseas agencies are posting advertisements for sex...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem-cell Banking: Lifeline or Sub-prime?

By Bryn Nelson, Nature Reports | 03.13.2008
"Are you making money from the media frenzy that surrounds stem cells?"
Stem-cell banking: lifeline or sub-prime?

The pitch, delivered...
Stem Cells

Female sperm and gay guinea pigs

By Marcy Darnovsky, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.12.2008

While gay families and their supporters await the California Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of a voter-approved law banning...

Stem Cells