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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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The CRISPR children

By Vivien Marx, Nature Biotechnology | 11.24.2021

Three years after the ‘CRISPR babies’ burst into the public eye and caused outrage, their fate remains shrouded in secrecy...

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How Egg Freezing & IVF Clinics Are Putting Women At Risk

By Vicky Spratt, Refinery29 | 11.22.2021

There is increasing concern among the medical community that the high doses of hormones involved in fertility treatments – whether...

Public Opinion

As gene-editing moves mainstream, a pioneer in the field is testing whether it could prevent Alzheimer's

By Allison DeAngelis, Insider | 11.22.2021

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David Liu is best known as one of the pioneers of the experimental science of editing...

Human Genetic Modification

FDA approves first drug for genetic cause of dwarfism

By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.19.2021

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment for the most common cause of dwarfism Friday, a drug that...

Society

CRISPR gene editing causes whole chromosome loss

By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 11.19.2021

In another of a long line of studies showing unintended effects of gene editing, the CRISPR-Cas gene editing tool has...

Animal Biotechnologies

For me, IVF and other fertility programs can have a darker and less happy side

By Blake Turck, The Washington Post | 11.13.2021

As a little girl, I never dreamed of motherhood. When I got married at 36, I assumed pregnancy would come...

Bioethics

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing May Select for Cells With Cancer-Related Mutations

By Sophia Ktori, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.12.2021

A comprehensive study headed by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys has shown that gene editing—specifically gene knockout (KO)—using CRISPR-Cas9 technology...

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Biden Chooses Robert Califf to Lead F.D.A., Despite Drug Industry Ties

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Kaplan, The New York Times | 11.12.2021

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Friday that he would nominate Dr. Robert M. Califf, a former commissioner of the...

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