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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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Clinic Ships in Eggs From US 'Bank' to Tackle Shortage

By Julia Medew, The Sydney Morning Herald | 03.10.2013
Australians have started paying $19,000 to import eggs from American women under a new deal that will provide hope to...
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California Bill Seeks Pay for Women Who Donate Eggs for Research

By Melody Gutierrez, The Sacramento Bee | 03.10.2013
Five years ago, Alice Crisci froze her eggs, knowing she could be left infertile after chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer...
Biopolitics

Donor Wombs: Giving Women Without Uteruses a Chance to Carry a Baby Stirs Assisted Baby Making Debate

By Sharon Kirkey, Edmonton Journal | 03.10.2013
In a world first attempt to achieve a pregnancy following a womb transplant, doctors in Turkey are preparing to transfer...
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Potentially Endless Line of Mice Cloned

By Tanya Lewis, NBC News | 03.08.2013
Watch out, George Lucas, there's a new attack of the clones, and these ones are furry.

Japanese researchers have created...
Human Cloning

Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 03.08.2013
Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of...
Genetic Selection

Should Cloning be Used for “De-Extinction”?

By John R. Platt, Scientific American | 03.06.2013
At some point in the next decade, if advances in biotechnology continue on their current path, clones of extinct species...
Human Cloning

Surrogate Offered $10,000 to Abort Baby

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 03.06.2013
(CNN) -- Crystal Kelley ran through the calendar once again in her head.

It was August, and if she got...
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UCSF Discovery a Potential "Earthquake" for Stem Cell Therapies

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 03.04.2013
A new type of stem cell, discovered by UCSF researchers, may open new possibilities for fixing damaged parts of the...
Biopolitics