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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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Kidneys From a Genetically Altered Pig Are Implanted in a Brain-Dead Patient

By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 01.20.2022

Photo courtesy of Sanford Health via flickr

Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported on Thursday that they...

Animal Biotechnologies
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Rejuvenation by controlled reprogramming is the latest gambit in anti-aging

By Michael Eisenstein, Nature Biotechnology | 01.19.2022

On 19 January, co-founders Rick Klausner and Hans Bishop publicly launched an aging research initiative called Altos Labs, with $3...

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Xenotransplantation: Three Areas of Concern

By L. Syd M. Johnson, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 01.19.2022

News of the first  transplant of a pig’s heart into a human was widely reported last week, raising hope that...

Synthetic Biology

Deregulating GMOs in the UK

By GMWatch, GMWatch | 01.19.2022

A new analysis by A Bigger Conversation suggests that, in its haste to deregulate agricultural gene technologies, the UK government...

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Going bald? Lab-grown hair cells could be on the way

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.18.2022

Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash

Biologists at several startups are applying the latest advances in genetic engineering to the...

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Sperm donation is largely unregulated, but that could soon change as lawsuits multiply

By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 01.18.2022

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When Wendy and Janet Norman...

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Artificial intelligence can discriminate on the basis of race and gender, and also age

By Charlene Chu, Kathleen Leslie, Rune Nyrup, and Shehroz Khan, The Conversation | 01.18.2022

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under CC BY 2.0 via www.vpnsrus.com

We have accepted the use of artificial intelligence (AI)...

A "Post-Human" Future?

NHS pilots genetic testing to predict risk of heart disease

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.17.2022

A world-first pilot of predictive genetic testing aiming to identify those at high risk of cardiovascular disease is under way...

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