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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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Most support protecting access to IVF

By Staff, AP-NORC | 07.12.2024

Image by Dr. Jayesh Amin from Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by-SA 3.0

Most adults support protecting access to in...

Assisted Reproduction
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Peter Thiel’s doping games and tech’s quest for a superhuman

By Parmy Olson, Bloomberg Opinion | 07.12.2024

Photo from Hubert Burda Media via Flickr licensed under CC by NC-SA 2.0

Peter Thiel’s Enhanced Games promise to be...

Society
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Striking costs of infertility point to importance of IVF access and affordability

By Beth Duff-Brown, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research | 07.12.2024

The debate over in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a hot-button policy and political issue, despite the medical procedure to...

Assisted Reproduction
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Elon Musk, father of 12, denies volunteering his own sperm to help seed a colony on Mars

By Eva Roytburg, Fortune | 07.11.2024

Image "Elon Musk" by Debbie Rowe on Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

Elon Musk has devoted hundreds...

Society
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Base Editing Tweaks Mouse Gut Microbiome, in Scientific First

By Julianna LeMieux, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 07.10.2024

Image by Rama from Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 FR

Microbiome research has faced a hurdle from the...

Human Genetic Modification
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Serious errors plague DNA tool that’s a workhorse of biology

By Katherine Bourzac, Nature | 07.10.2024

Image by NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research from Flickr

Researchers analysed thousands of laboratory-made plasmids and discovered that nearly half...

Genomics
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Amid discrimination, Japan's eugenics missteps could be repeated, expert warns

By Staff, Japan Times | 07.10.2024

Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash

How did Japanese society, which was supposed to have transformed into a democracy after...

Other Countries
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Netflix's 'Man With 1000 Kids' puts a spotlight on the lack of international regulations for sperm donors

By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News | 07.09.2024

A Netflix docuseries has put a spotlight on the unregulated world of sperm donation, particularly the lack of stopgap measures...

Assisted Reproduction