News

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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American Surrogate Death: NOT the First

By Mirah Riben, HuffPost Blog | 10.15.2015
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"Give me children, or else I die. Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the...

Assisted Reproduction

Four Synthetic Biology Inventions That Flummox the Feds

By Kelly Servick, Science | 10.15.2015
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So you’ve made a new product by genetically engineering a living organism, and are eager to sell it...

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[India] Blanket ban likely on NRIs, PIOs, foreigners having kids through surrogacy

By The Economic Times, The Economic Times | 10.15.2015

NEW DELHI: A blanket ban may be imposed soon on NRIs, PIOs and foreigners having children through surrogacy in India...

Assisted Reproduction

Handheld DNA reader revolutionary and democratising, say scientists

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 10.15.2015
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An inexpensive handheld device that can read strands of DNA has been hailed as revolutionary by scientists who...

Global Governance

A Tale of Do-It-Yourself Gene Therapy

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2015
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Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA?

One Seattle-area...

Genomics

After Asilomar

By Editorial, Nature News | 10.14.2015
Untitled Document In 1975, some 140 scientists met at the Asilomar resort on California’s rocky Monterey Peninsula to discuss the...
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[Nepal] Gendercide

By Geha Nath Khanal, Kathmandu Post | 10.13.2015
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Abortion services were legalised in Nepal in September 2002 after much research, advocacy and lobbying at the local...

Genetic Selection

Where in the world could the first CRISPR baby be born?

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 10.13.2015
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They are meeting in China; they are meeting in the United Kingdom; and they met in the United...

Genetic Selection