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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...

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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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Japan to undergo first U.N. disabilities committee review in August

By The Japan Times, The Japan Times | 05.30.2022

Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash

Japan will undergo a policy review by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of...

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Australia Wields a New DNA Tool to Crack Missing-Person Mysteries

By Oscar Schwartz, The New York Times | 05.28.2022

When a man washed up on the shores of Christmas Island in 1942, lifeless and hunched over in a shrapnel-riddled...

Genomics
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As DNA Donors’ Secrets Emerge, What Should the Children Know?

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.27.2022

Tyler Sniff took a home DNA test at 32 years old and unexpectedly learned that the man who raised him...

Genomics
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Employer fertility benefits have a dramatic and startling expansion amid the Great Resignation, experts say

By Michelle Fox, CNBC | 05.27.2022

Photo by Benjamin Child on Unsplash

As employers try to entice new workers and keep the ones they have, more...

Assisted Reproduction
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The Pandora’s Box of Embryo Testing Is Officially Open

By Carey Goldberg, Bloomberg | 05.26.2022

Photo by Warren Umoh on Unsplash

Simone Collins knew she was pregnant the moment she answered the phone. She was...

Assisted Reproduction
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‘Why Biology Is Not Destiny’: An Exchange

By Kathryn Paige Harden et al., The New York Review | 05.25.2022

In response to:

Why Biology Is Not Destiny from the April 21, 2022 issue

To the Editors:

Marcus Feldman...

Human Genetic Modification
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Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy

By Janet D. Stemwedel , The Scientific American | 05.24.2022

 Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash

The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened...

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Buffalo shooting ignites a debate over the role of genetics researchers in white supremacist ideology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.23.2022

Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and...

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