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

Mixing animal and human cells gets more exotic

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 06.18.2006
SAN FRANCISCO - On the sun-splashed Caribbean island of St. Kitts, Yale University researchers are injecting millions of human brain...
U.S. Federal

Wealthy foreign couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press | 06.15.2006
The Chinese want boys, and the Canadians want girls. If they have enough money, they come to the United States...
Genetic Selection

Stem Cell Politics and Progressive Values

By Marcy Darnovsky, reprint of talk at Take Back America 2006 | 06.15.2006

Presentation at Take Back America conference, Washington, DC

My remarks today are about progressive values and the politics of stem...

Biopolitics

Biotech exec's contribution called conflict

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 06.09.2006
A fundraising foundation has received a $3,000 donation for California's stem-cell institute from an executive of a Bay Area stem-cell...
Biotech & Pharma

Institute's chairman raps senator for bill

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 06.08.2006
Klein's letter draws reaction over politics
By Terri Somers
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 8, 2006

One day before voters went...
Biopolitics

Prospects murky for US stem cell funding

By Ted Agres, The Scientist | 06.08.2006
Leading U.S. senators are hoping to remove political roadblocks and pass legislation allowing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and...
Stem Cells

Ethical questions complicate the recruitment of egg donors

By Gareth Cook, Boston Globe | 06.07.2006
Recruiting women to donate eggs for stem cell research brings scientists into new ethical territory where the standards are still...
Stem Cells

Harvard launches human stem cell cloning attempt

By Gareth Cook, Boston Globe | 06.06.2006
Harvard scientists announced today they are beginning an ambitious attempt to create the world_s first cloned human embryonic stem cells...
Stem Cells