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

Picking Nits or Learning Lessons?

By Marcy Darnovsky and Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 09.17.2007

The full story of 36-year-old Jolee Mohr's recent death in a gene therapy clinical trial for rheumatoid arthritis is still...

Human Genetic Modification

[California] Stem cell pioneer to lead state's institute

By Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times | 09.15.2007

A pioneering Australian biologist who was among the first scientists to grow human embryonic stem cells in a laboratory will...

Stem Cells

Gene Therapy Death Raises Ethical Issues

By Marcy Darnovsky, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.13.2007

Later this month, a committee of the National Institutes of Health will discuss the recent death of 36-year-old Illinois resident...

Human Genetic Modification

Medical Exploitation

By Allen M. Hornblum and Osagie K. Obasogie, Philadelphia Inquirer | 09.13.2007

Any day now the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may decide to turn back the clock to a...

Bioethics

How Do You Like Your Genes? Biofabs Take Orders

By ANDREW POLLACK, New York Times | 09.12.2007

INDUSTRIAL age foundries made cast-metal parts. Information age foundries, or "fabs," produce computer chips. Now come foundries for the biotechnology...

Genomics