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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

On Vampires and Chromosomes

By George Estreich, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.09.2013

If our entertainments reveal what’s on our collective minds, then we seem to be thinking quite a bit about human...

Technologies

Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

By Adam Serwer, Mother Jones | 05.08.2013

Jason Richwine, the coauthor of the conservative Heritage Foundation's controversial study on the supposed $6.3 trillion cost of comprehensive immigration...

Biopolitics

ACMG Issues Clarification Over Incidental Findings Guidance

By Dr Philippa Brice and Dr Ron Zimmern, PHG Foundation | 05.07.2013

The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has released a clarification of recent guidance issued on the subject of incidental...

Bioethics

A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 05.07.2013

Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started...

Biotech & Pharma

Precision StemCell: Selling Stem Cells & Treating Individuals With ALS as Human Guinea Pigs

By Leigh Turner, Health in the Global Village | 05.06.2013

When journalists and health researchers write about patients seeking access to unproven stem cell interventions, they typically examine international travel...

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