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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...

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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...

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...

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Chairman rejects stem cell changes: Open meetings, salary caps sought for oversight board

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 03.22.2005
LOS ANGELES - The chairman of the state stem cell agency's oversight board rejected every point in a petition seeking...
Stem Cells

Opinion: To create, or not to create?

By Bernadine Healy, M.D., US News and World Report | 03.21.2005
The United States is in the midst of a gold rush over human-embryo research. Not to be outdone by California's...
Assisted Reproduction

[UK] MPs say lift ban on reproductive human cloning

By The Observer, The Observer | 03.20.2005

The creation of a creature that is half-man/half-animal may be thought to be the stuff of a science fiction novel...

Human Genetic Modification

Of mighty mice & super men

By Michael Dobie, New York Newsday | 03.20.2005
There are mice in Lee Sweeney's laboratory. Cute-looking mice with little ears, tails, fur. Some are black, some white. At...
Human Genetic Modification

Editorial: Why invite intervention? Stem cell panel should reform on its own

By admin Sacramento Bee | 03.18.2005
When we last checked in on Robert Klein II and his quasi-public, $3 billion stem cell research program, the barbarians...
Stem Cells

Response from Robert Klein to Lee-Halpern Petition

By Robertk Klein | 03.18.2005

Dear Mr. Halpern and Dr. Lee,

The petition that you filed with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine on Wednesday...

U.S. States

A mix of mice and men

By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor | 03.17.2005
In Greek mythology, they were monsters - with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the...
Stem Cells

Senators launch campaign to amend stem cell program

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 03.16.2005
SACRAMENTO - Two state senators with opposite views on stem cell research forged an odd political alliance Wednesday when they...
Stem Cells