News

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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a banner saying eugenics over a tree

They, the people

By Patricia J. Williams, TLS | 08.06.2021

In 1853, Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau published a tract entitled “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races”, in which...

Eugenics
GMO corn field with signs

USDA’s actions on gene-edited approvals challenged in court

By Jacqui Fatka, Farm Progress | 08.06.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY 2.0 on Wikimedia Commons

In May 2020, the previous administration’s USDA issued its...

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bone marrow

She Has Stem Cells in Her Crosshairs

By Elizabeth Preston, NEO.LIFE | 08.05.2021

Photo by Ed Uthman on Flickr

In 2017, Agnieszka Czechowicz watched a four-year-old girl sleeping soundly in a California hospital...

Stem Cells
Lung X-Ray

These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race

By Tom Simonite, Wired | 08.05.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 4.0 on Wikimedia Commons

Millions of dollars are being spent to develop artificial intelligence...

A "Post-Human" Future?
Women protesting with signs that read "stop abortion bans"

The governor was right to veto a dangerous NC abortion bill

By Rebecca Todd Peters, The Charlotte Observer | 08.04.2021

Photo by Fibonacci Blue on Flickr

The N.C. legislature is soon expected to vote on whether to override or uphold...

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NFL football players on field

How ‘race-norming’ was built into the NFL concussion settlement

By Will Hobson, The Washington Post | 08.02.2021

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CHANDLER, Ariz. — At first glance, Rick Cunningham looks ...

Arts & Culture

The next debate on embryo science

By Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 08.02.2021

A longstanding prohibition against culturing human embryos for more than 14 days is now open for discussion, according to revised...

Stem Cells

Countries with a cultural preference for sons likely to lose another 4.7 million girls by 2030

By Emily Henderson, News Medical | 07.31.2021

Countries with a skewed sex ratio at birth, because of a cultural preference for sons, are set to ‘lose’ another...

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