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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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Czech Republic: Hard won justice for women survivors of unlawful sterilization

By Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International | 07.22.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

The Czech Senate today finally voted to compensate thousands...

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Woman protesting with a sign that says "Listen to the Science!" hanging on her backpack

For Good Science, You Need Engaged Citizens

By Gregory E. Kaebnick, Michael K. Gusmano , Scientific American | 07.22.2021

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

The White House has rehired a climate scientist who was forced out by the...

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21st Century Olympic Doping

By Robin Donovan, NEO.LIFE | 07.22.2021

Photo by Serena Repice Lentini on Unsplash

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finally set to kick off this week...

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In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 07.21.2021

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When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the...

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California Approves Reparations for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

By Mina Kim, KQED Forum | 07.21.2021

In the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other...

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Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know | 07.21.2021

Next week in Rome, world leaders will gather to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the...

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Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

By Erin McCormick, The Guardian | 07.19.2021

It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she...

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Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’

By Mary Papenfuss, Huffpost | 07.16.2021

In a new political low in Texas, the Republican-dominated state Senate has passed a bill to eliminate a...

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