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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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As White House Embraces BRAIN Initiative, Questions Linger

By Emily Underwood, ScienceInsider | 04.03.2013

For neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, sitting in an ornate White House chamber yesterday listening to President Barack Obama heap praise—and some...

U.S. Federal

New gene therapy births 'designer baby' fears

By Gavin O'Toole, Al Jazeera (English) | 04.03.2013
London, UK - Fertility regulators in the UK have paved the way for the introduction of a radical form of...
Human Genetic Modification

Tough Calls on Prenatal Tests

By Christopher Weaver, Wall Street Journal | 04.03.2013
New prenatal blood tests for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome are reshaping care for expectant mothers, but their rapid...
Assisted Reproduction

Come and get it: how sperm became one of America's hottest exports

By Brooke Jarvis, The Verge | 04.02.2013
I'd been friends with Chris for years when he mentioned, casually, that he's a father.

Or probably is - as...
Biotech & Pharma

Wake Forest examines eugenics here and abroad

By John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal | 04.02.2013

North Carolina's program of forced sterilization for social purposes shares an infamous place in history with the eugenics movement elsewhere...

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Can We Patent Life?

By Michael Specter, The New Yorker | 04.02.2013
On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk, who had recently invented the polio vaccine, appeared on the television news show "See...
Biotech & Pharma

Not every woman should get the BRCA gene test, U.S. task force says

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 04.01.2013
Certain mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes can increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer or ovarian cancer...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Sex-Selective Discrimination Common in Indian Wombs: US Study

By Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times | 03.31.2013

Indian women carrying male foetuses are likelier to receive pre-natal medical care than their counterparts pregnant with girls, a new...

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