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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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More testing alone will not get us out of this pandemic

By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 09.01.2020

In the past few weeks, public-health experts were rightfully outraged at moves by the US Centers for Disease Control and...

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Landmark Privacy Proposal To Give Consumers Control Over Their Genetic Data Advances To Governor Newsom’s Desk For Signature

By George Thomas, The Government Center Gazette [cites CGS] | 09.01.2020

SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) announced today that his measure, Senate Bill 980 (SB 980) passed the California...

Policies

Futuristic Fat-Fighting Fantasy: Using CRISPR To Tweak ‘Bad’ Fat Into Acting Like ‘Good’ Fat

By Carey Goldberg, WBUR | 08.27.2020

Here's a sci-fi fantasy spurred by some very real — but early — new research published this week:

Imagine the...

Human Genetic Modification

The false, lethal promise of ‘warp speed’ science

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.25.2020

President Trump’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic has been rooted from the start in grand goals and grander ambitions, all...

Policies

Ads that target young women

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 08.25.2020

It's possible that you've never been sent one of these ads. I haven't. But if you're a young woman, aged...

Racial justice, disability rights, neurodiversity and cross-movement solidarity

By Sam Farmer, Changing America | 08.21.2020

How might greater social justice for those who have unjustly been marginalized best be achieved? Perhaps cross-movement solidarity is the...

Perspectives

Gene drives and societal narratives

By Brigitte Nerlich, Making Science Public | 08.21.2020

Some days ago, I came across an interesting virtual conference (HT @Sarah_A_Hartley) about gene editing which includes a session on...

Genomics

Single-Gene Variant Disease Risk Impacted by Genetic Background

By GEN, GEN | 08.20.2020

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School, in partnership with...

Genomics