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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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Statue of a young boy in the Reflection Garden at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon (Flickr/Mary Harrsch).

Jordan Schnitzer Gets a Son—and a Court Battle

By Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week | 03.16.2016

Image via Flickr/Mary Harrsch

Portland businessman Jordan Schnitzer owns a billion-dollar real estate portfolio. He has homes in San Francisco...

Genetic Selection

Scientists develop new human stem cells with half a genome

By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 03.16.2016
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Scientists for the first time have generated a type of embryonic stem cell that carries a single copy...

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The Limits of Personalized Medicine

By Timothy Caulfield, The Atlantic | 03.16.2016
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Personalized medicine—the idea that genetic testing can reveal a person’s unique risks for various illnesses, as well as...

Genomics

The Government seem more interested in our genes than our voices

By Edward Hockings & Lewis Coyne, The Guardian | 03.15.2016
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This is a pivotal time for the future of human genetic technologies. New gene editing techniques such as...

Human Genetic Modification

If we’re not careful, epigenetics may bring back eugenic thinking

By Maurizio Meloni, The Conversation [UK] | 03.15.2016
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Epigenetics, the study of how environmental factors and lifestyle choices influence our genes, has flourished to become one...

Bioethics

Of evil mice and men: Can we blame crime on our genes?

By Alan Martin, Alphr | 03.14.2016
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This week, a number of newspapers announced an intriguing scientific discovery. The Telegraph...

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People Are Going To Prison Thanks To DNA Software — But How It Works Is Secret

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 03.12.2016
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Two days after Christmas 1977, police found Shelley H. dead in her apartment in Long Beach, California. The...

Genomics

Jennifer Doudna: The Promise and Peril of Gene Editing

By Alexandra Wolfe, Wall Street Journal | 03.11.2016
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Geneticist Jennifer Doudna, 52, is waiting for the day when she reads about the first baby whose genes...

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