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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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In a Kyiv Basement, 19 Surrogate Babies Are Trapped by War but Kept Alive by Nannies

By Andrew E. Kramer and Maria Varenikova, The New York Times | 03.12.2022

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Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim...

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California stem cell clinic to pay out $3.65M settlement to former patients for ineffective treatments

By Paul Schloesser, Endpoints News | 03.11.2022

Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash

Four years after the FDA admonished stem cell clinic StemGenex for making dubious claims...

Stem Cells
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Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible

By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.09.2022

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An extinct rat that once lived on an...

Animal Biotechnologies
plastic model of a human heart

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

By Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press | 03.09.2022

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two...

Animal Biotechnologies
Patient's brain scan

Could drugs prevent Alzheimer’s? These trials aim to find out

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.09.2022

Brain scan by Philippi et al via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Every two weeks, a nurse visits 43-year-old...

Genomics
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Major CRISPR patent decision won’t end tangled dispute

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 03.09.2022

Patent Law by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

A long-running dispute between two groups that...

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Woman receiving an ultrasound exam

Bias and Inaccuracy in Marketing Noninvasive Prenatal Tests

By Editors, The Hastings Center | 03.08.2022

Photo by Scott via wikimedia

Bias and inaccuracy are pervasive in the marketing of noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs), concludes an...

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Gene-edited beef cattle get regulatory clearance in US

By Candice Choi, Associated Press | 03.07.2022

Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash

U.S. regulators on Monday cleared the way for the sale of beef from gene-edited...

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