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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

Stem-Cell Rift Shows Difficulty Obtaining Eggs

By Antonio Regalado, Wall Street Journal | 11.14.2005
THE BREAKUP of a U.S.-Korean scientific partnership on Friday may derail what supporters had hoped would become a promising source...
Stem Cells

Editorial: Science and Democracy

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.13.2005

NOW THAT California taxpayers know that the $3 billion ($6 billion with debt service) that they voted in 2004 to...

Patents & Other IP

U.S. Scientist Leaves Joint Stem Cell Project

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.12.2005
Alleged Ethical Breaches By South Korean Cited

A leading University of Pittsburgh researcher on embryonic stem cells said yesterday that...
Stem Cells

What If Not Enough Are Around [UK]

By Inter Press Service, Inter Press Service | 11.08.2005

A recommendation by a British parliamentary committee to allow a couple to select the sex of their child under certain...

Member of Hwang Team Involved in Ovum Scandal

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 11.08.2005

A key member of a Korean stem cell team led by professor Hwang Woo-suk at Seoul National University has been...

Stem Cells

Opinion: Stem cell royalty promise just election ruse?

By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee | 11.07.2005
Mark Twain said it best when he commented: "There are lies, damn lies and ballot initiatives."
Actually, Twain didn't say...
Patents & Other IP

Beeson et al Amicus brief

By Steven N.H. Wood | 11.04.2005

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Govt to enforce PNDT Act vigorously to check sex ratio decline [India]

By Webindia123, Webindia123 | 11.03.2005

The government is going to vigorously enforce the pre-natal diagnostic techniques (PNDT) Act which has become more comprehensive and stringent...

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