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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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‘It’s a real-life Hunger Games’: a lifesaving drug costs $2m, but not every child can get it

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 03.05.2022

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Elizabeth Wraige remembers the first time she delivered the diagnosis. “Parents feel as if...

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Genetically Engineered Golden Rice: Real Hope or Misplaced Hype?

By Melissa Waddell, Living Non-GMO | 03.03.2022

The biotech industry loves to talk about precision. 

For example, advocates for genetic engineering and genetic modification have adopted the...

Synthetic Biology
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SFPD says use of rape victim's DNA in unrelated criminal investigation 'should not have happened'

By J. R. Stone, ABC News | 03.03.2022

Wednesday night the San Francisco Police Chief responded to some tough questions from police commissioners about the use of DNA...

Policies
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Rediscovering a language of healing that doesn’t require ‘cure’

By Lee D. Cooper, STAT News | 03.02.2022

"Doctor Patient and Xray" by andyde is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

I am a biotech investor and...

Human Genetic Modification
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First gene-editing treatment injected into the blood reduces toxic protein for up to 1 year

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 03.01.2022

Cas9 from CRISPR from NIH, CC BY-NC 2.0

The first team to disable a disease gene directly in a...

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Ukraine’s Surrogacy Industry Has Put Women in Impossible Positions

By Alison Motluk, The Atlantic | 03.01.2022

Ukrainian Flag by Jolanta Dyr from Pixabay

Nothing crystallizes the “her body, my baby” conundrum of surrogacy quite like a...

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UC Berkeley loses CRISPR gene editing patent case

By Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News | 02.28.2022

Photo of Jennifer Doudna licensed for reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0

UC Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna earned a Nobel Prize...

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When an Ancestry Search Reveals Fertility Fraud

By Jacqueline Mroz, The New York Times | 02.28.2022

Like millions of Americans, David Berry was curious about his genealogy. He wanted to learn more about his paternal grandfather...

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