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

Among the Transhumanists

By William Saletan, Slate | 06.04.2006
Heeeeeeere's Cat Man!

On a projection screen at Stanford Law School, an auditorium full of nerds stared at a picture...
Human Genetic Modification

$100 million fundraising goal set

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 06.03.2006
Having survived 18 months on $22 million in donations and loans, California's groundbreaking stem cell institute now aims to raise...
Biotech & Pharma

Initiative's creator keeps tinkering: Senator, oversight panel often at odds

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 06.02.2006
California's groundbreaking $3 billion stem cell initiative was the brainchild of state Sen. Deborah Ortiz, who saw it as a...
Patents & Other IP

Editorial: Cellular mutation

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 06.02.2006

In her latest effort to reform California's $3 billion stem cell research institute, state Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, has introduced...

Patents & Other IP

Is there a human right to be superhuman?

By Brian Alexander, MSNBC | 06.01.2006
While America was rushing to see sharp metal blades jut from Wolverine_s fists during the opening of the third "X-Men"...
Bioethics

Editorial: Legal delays may be a plus for state's stem-cell effort

By San Jose Mercury News, San Jose Mercury News | 06.01.2006

The delays in implementing California's ambitious stem-cell initiative -- primarily the result of litigation that borders on being nuisance suits...

Patents & Other IP

Opening Comments at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) consultation on Human Enhancement

By Richard Hayes | 06.01.2006

Mark Frankel asked if we’d share some general perspectives on what we believe to be the major challenges posed as...

Civil Society

Stem Cell Caution

By Richard Hayes, Tom Paine | 05.24.2006

Support for stem cell research has become a cause célèbre among Democrats. Last year New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine made...

Human Genetic Modification