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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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U.S. mishandling of COVID echoes the 20th century eugenics movement

By Knute Berger, Crosscut | 12.01.2020

Over the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s...

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“Three-Parent IVF” Might Open the Door to Human Genome Editing

By Diana Bowman, Karinne Ludlow, Walter Johnson, Slate | 12.01.2020

On Oct. 19, a team of researchers from Greece and Spain made a remarkable announcement: They had started six pregnancies...

Assisted Reproduction
Cradles and a globe

Continuing issues and debate concerning transnational commercial surrogacy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

By Yuri Hibino, Sonia Allan, and Damian Adams, BioNews | 11.30.2020

The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several...

Assisted Reproduction

Why we should use mild stimulation in egg donation

By Guido Pennings, BioNews | 11.30.2020

There are two strong ethical reasons to avoid harm to egg donors: a duty to minimise harm and the proportionality...

Assisted Reproduction
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Court rules Japan's eugenics law unconstitutional but rejects damages claim

By Staff, Japan Times | 11.30.2020

Photo by Tianshu Liu on Unsplash

OSAKA – Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the now-defunct eugenics protection law, under which...

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A Geneticist’s Dilemma

By Oscar Schwartz, The Washington Post | 11.23.2020

Image by Bassoonstuff (Bobby C. Hawkins),
CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear and icy morning in...

Genomics
Violent protest

Facial recognition used to identify Lafayette Square protester accused of assault

By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...

Civil Society

All Your Genes Are Belong To Us

By Karen Duffin and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, NPR | 11.20.2020

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