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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An experimental gene therapy was little Alissa's only hope. Now, instead of certain death, she faces an uncertain future.

By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 04.25.2021

BOSTON — Thomas Feldborg and Daria Rokina set off nearly every afternoon to explore this city. They leave from their hotel...

Animal Biotechnologies

Reversible Gene Editing Is On The Horizon

By Amanda Winkler, Freethink | 04.24.2021

The gene-editing system, CRISPR-Cas9, is truly revolutionizing medicine: in the future, it may help us eradicate ailments from sickle cell...

Human Genetic Modification

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2021

At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known...

Perspectives

Oxford malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

By Sarah Bosely, The Guardian | 04.23.2021

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A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in ...

Society

Bayer plots big cell therapy building as master plan for Berkeley site moves forward

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2021

Human Genetic Modification

Standard IVF is fine for most people. So why are so many offered an expensive sperm injection they don’t need?

By Robert Norman and Ben W. Moi, The Conversation | 04.22.2021

An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clinics around the world, offers no extra benefits to standard IVF in...

Assisted Reproduction

The Lasting Impact of Eugenics: An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley

By Eleanor J. Bader, The Progressive | 04.20.2021

When nurse Dawn Wooten blew the whistle on medical staff at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia last fall...

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Inside the rise of police department real-time crime centers

By Rowan Moore Gerety, MIT Technology Review | 04.19.2021

At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a...