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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 New Wave of Anti-Trans Legislation Sure Looks a Lot Like Eugenics

By Evan Urquhart, Slate | 03.03.2021

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

A huge wave of anti-transgender legislation is coursing through statehouses in the early months...

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The beautiful science of embryology

By Kate Womersley, Prospect | 03.03.2021

It’s a familiar story: the virile sperm fights its path through the hostile uterus to the passive female egg. After...

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CRISPR rivals put patents aside to help in fight against Covid-19

By Walter Isaacson, STAT | 03.03.2021

In early January 2020, Feng Zhang, a gene-editing researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, started getting emails...

Human Genetic Modification
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The World Must Regulate Tech Before It’s Too Late

By Vivek Wadhwa, Tarun Wadhwa, Foreign Policy | 03.01.2021

A century’s worth of change is about to be squeezed into a single decade. By 2030, entire industries are likely...

Human Genetic Modification

How the Los Angeles Times shilled for the racist eugenics movement

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Times | 02.28.2021

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from...

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Was “science” on the ballot?

By Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Science | 02.26.2021

On 7 November 2020, moments before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden began their victory speeches, giant screens flanking the stage...

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Decoding the CRISPR-baby stories

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, MIT Technology Review | 02.24.2021

The conventional story of CRISPR genome editing is one of heroic power and promise with an element of peril. That...

Human Genetic Modification
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Response to Levrier re: Human Germline and Heritable Genome Editing: The Global Policy Landscape

By Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 02.19.2021

In response to: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2021.29121.gle

Levrier apparently misunderstands the nature of our project published in The CRISPR Journal in October 2020...

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