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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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Sperm Banks Struggle to Recruit Black Donors and Other Donors of Color

By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal | 02.26.2022

A few years after her marriage broke up, Aisha Jenkins started thinking about having a baby on her own. She...

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How to protect the first ‘CRISPR babies’ prompts ethical debate

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 02.25.2022

Photo of He Jiankui licensed for reuse under CC BY 3.0

Two prominent bioethicists in China are calling on the...

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Genomics’ Ethical Gray Areas Are Harming the Developing World

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Undark Magazine | 02.24.2022

Since the first human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, scientists have touted the breakthrough as a blessing to humanity...

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The ‘Nation’s Psychiatrist’ Takes Stock, With Frustration

By Ellen Barry, The New York Times | 02.22.2022

Official photo of Thomas Insel from the NIMH Office of the Director

A new book by Dr. Thomas P. Insel...

Genomics

Gene-Edited Brain Organoids Are Unlocking the Secrets of Autism

By Amit Katwala, Wired | 02.21.2022

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complicated range of conditions affecting the behavior, social...

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Ukraine: Ireland ‘speeds up’ exit for surrogate babies

By BBC, BBC | 02.21.2022

The Irish government has expedited plans for families with newborn surrogate babies to travel immediately from Ukraine.

It comes as...

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President Biden's Cabinet members sitting in chairs and wearing masks

Biden doesn’t get it

By H. Holden Thorp, Science | 02.18.2022

It has been a rough 2 weeks for the US science community. After 4 years of bludgeoning by the Trump...

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Black women, long ignored in infertility discussions, speak out

By Shelia Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 02.18.2022

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Penelope Marshall McCown struggled for years to have a baby.

She and...

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