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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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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

By Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times | 05.30.2025

In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising...

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The Techno-Futuristic Philosophy Behind Elon Musk’s Mania

By Matthew Purdy, The New York Times | 05.29.2025

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As Elon Musk...

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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

By Dhruv Mehrotra, Wired | 05.29.2025

THE UNITED STATES government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded...

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Donald Trump’s Decades-Long Obsession With Eugenics

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 05.28.2025

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Gene editing leaders call for 10-year suspension of heritable human genome editing

By Darren Incorvaia, Fierce Biotech | 05.28.2025

An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome...

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Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they?

By Brittany Luse, Liam McBain, and Neena Pathak, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.28.2025

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

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Why Deleting Your 23andMe Data Is a Political Imperative

By Katie Sagaser, The DNA Exchange | 05.27.2025

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this piece are solely my own and do not represent those of my...

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At a major genome-editing summit, spotlight turns to the value of human life

By Megan Molteni, STAT+ | 05.27.2025

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It began, unlike any other international meeting devoted to discussions of powerful DNA-modifying technologies, with a dance. Four...

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