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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...

U.S. Federal

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...

U.S. States

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...

U.S. Federal

New Study Tracks Emotional Health of 'Surrogate Kids'

By Linda Carroll, Today | 06.19.2013
Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered...
Civil Society

Japan to Relax Ban on Chimeric Embryo Experiments

By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.19.2013
TOKYO— A scientist pioneering research toward generating human organs in pigs has cleared one hurdle in gaining approval to continue...
Stem Cells

California Bill Poised to Lift Restrictions on Egg Donation

By Charlotte Schubert, Nature | 06.18.2013
California is set to pass a bill that would allow payments over and above 'direct expenses' to be made to...
Biopolitics

Myriad Ruling Causes Confusion

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.18.2013
There was a party waiting for Elizabeth Chao when she arrived for work last week at Ambry Genetics, a medical-diagnostics...
Biopolitics

Public Invasion of Genetic Privacy For UK Royal Family?

By Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 06.17.2013
The Times newspaper has published a front-page story revealing that the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, and his brother Prince...
Global Governance

Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.16.2013
Not so long ago, people who provided DNA in the course of research studies were told that their privacy was...
Global Governance

Testimony by Jennifer Schneider, MD to the California Senate Health Committee re AB 926

By Jennifer Schneider, MD | 06.16.2013

My name is Jennifer Schneider. I’m an Internal Medicine physician and the mother of a Stanford student egg donor.  I...

Human Cloning

Real-Life True Blood: Synthetic Blood Is Coming — And So Are a Host of Potential Complications

By Devon Maloney, Wired | 06.14.2013
Season 6 of HBO’s vampire drama True Blood premieres on Sunday night, presumably following up on last year’s cliffhanger where...
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