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...

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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...

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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

State stem cell board member asked to quit over apparent conflict

By Sabin Russell, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.22.2007

A prominent member of the governing board for California's stem cell agency may have violated state conflict-of-interest rules last summer...

U.S. States

Beyond the Embryo Fight

By Richard Hayes, Los Angeles Times | 11.22.2007

The debate over cloning embryos for stem cell research has been one of the most divisive and unpleasant public controversies...

Stem Cells

NEWS ANALYSIS: Advance on Stem Cells Equalizes Debate

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times | 11.21.2007

It has been more than six years since President Bush, in the first major televised address of his presidency, drew...

Biopolitics

Method with Skin Mimics Stem Cells without Embryos

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 11.21.2007

Two teams of scientists reported Tuesday that they have developed a relatively easy method of converting human skin cells into...

Stem Cells

UCSF Researcher Successfully Creates Stem Cells from Human Skin

By San Francisco Examiner, Bay City News [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.21.2007

A Japanese scientist with research ties to the Bay Area reported today a breakthrough in stem cell research that has...

Stem Cells

Stem-Cell Advance Opens up the Field

By Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor | 11.21.2007

Colonies of tiny cells flourishing in petri dishes in the US and Japan are reshaping the political and ethical landscape...

Stem Cells

Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells

By Gretchen Vogel, ScienceNow Daily News | 11.21.2007
Scientists have managed to reprogram human skin cells directly into cells that look and act like embryonic stem (ES) cells...
Stem Cells

Stem Cell Breakthrough Is Like 'Turning Lead Into Gold'

By Brandon Keim, Wired | 11.21.2007

In an unprecedented feat of biological alchemy, researchers have turned human skin cells into stem cells that hold the same...

Stem Cells