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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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Addressing Racism’s Toll: My Minneapolis Experience

By Michele Goodwin, Ms. | 06.01.2020

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The past few days have been traumatizing for our nation, with the murder of George...

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Qatar virus tracing app stirs rare privacy backlash

By Gregory Walton, AFP | 05.24.2020

Doha (AFP) - Privacy concerns over Qatar's coronavirus contact tracing app, a tool that is mandatory on pain of prison...

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Are surrogate and IVF babies ‘essential’ in a pandemic?

By Amrita Pande, Mail & Guardian | 05.22.2020

A recent New York Times article heightened the sense of dystopia of the world that we seem to be...

'All the psychoses of US history': how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead

By Lois Beckett, The Guardian | 05.21.2020

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Why do Americans represent less than 5% of the world’s population but nearly a...

America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 05.20.2020

here was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the...

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Inside America’s Horrifying Modern-Day Eugenics Movement

By Cassie Da Costa, The Daily Beast | 05.18.2020

Director Erika Cohn’s new film, Belly of the Beast, part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival which goes...

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United States relaxes rules for biotech crops

By Erik Stokstad, Science | 05.18.2020

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A major change to U.S. regulation of biotech will exempt some gene-edited plants from...

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100 Babies Stranded in Ukraine After Surrogate Births

By Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times | 05.16.2020

The babies lie in cribs, sleeping, crying or smiling at nurses, swaddled in clean linens and apparently well cared for...

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