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

The Future: Think performance enhancers are a problem now?

By David Epstein, Sports Illustrated | 03.11.2008

I am one of the most avid sports fans you'll find," Se-Jin Lee says. It's true. He'll watch anything. Basketball...

Human Genetic Modification

Would you deposit to 'biobank'?

By Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 03.11.2008

Wanted: Your genes.

Hoping to link illnesses to genetics and lifestyle, the federal government is exploring the possibility of recruiting...

Genomics

India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood

By Amelia Gentleman, New York Times | 03.10.2008
MUMBAI — Yonatan Gher and his partner, who are Israeli, plan eventually to tell their child about being made in...
Other Countries

Is it wrong to select a deaf embryo?

By Clare Murphy, BBC News | 03.10.2008

For a long time, the debate about the genetic testing of embryos has focused on whether we should stop people...

Genetic Selection

Companies cash in on checking your DNA for disease

By Rita Rubin, USA Today | 03.06.2008
Several new companies are betting consumers will be curious enough to shell out $1,000 or more to learn what diseases...
Biotech & Pharma

Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 03.04.2008

On a cold day in January, Dan Stoicescu, a millionaire living in Switzerland, became the second person in the world...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Maryland: Stem cell researchers reeling from proposed 80% fund cut

By Karen Buckelew, Maryland Daily Record | 03.03.2008
Cutting the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund by nearly 80 percent would mean "effectively stopping the program," according to the...
U.S. States

MPs dismayed by HFEA's hybrid egg decision

By Jonathan Petre, The Telegraph (UK) | 03.03.2008
The body which regulates embryo research is to come under fire for allowing scientists to create part-human, part-animal hybrids.

A...
Animal Biotechnologies