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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

Parents Can Have a Duty to Use IVF, say Bioethicists

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.17.2012
When two Italian-Australian utilitarian bioethicists declared in the Journal of Medical Ethics that infanticide (or after-birth abortion) was morally permissible...
Bioethics

UK Aid Helps to Fund Forced Sterilisation of India's Poor

By Gethin Chamberlain, Guardian | 04.14.2012
Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian...
Other Countries

Critics of California Stem-Cell Agency Address Institute of Medicine Panel

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News Blog | 04.13.2012
A committee convened by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) heard testimony on 10 April about shortcomings of the San...
Stem Cells

Texas Board Approves Rules on Use of Stem Cells

By Minjae Park, New York Times | 04.13.2012
AUSTIN, Tex. — The Texas Medical Board on Friday approved controversial new rules on the use of adult stem cells...
Stem Cells

Doctors in Uzbekistan Say Government Forcibly Sterilizing Women

By Joyce Hackel, The World | 04.12.2012
Journalist Natalia Antelava talks with Marco Werman about what she says is a secret program by the government of Uzbekistan...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Stricter Norms for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinics

By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 04.12.2012

JAIPUR: All clinics in India, involved in treating infertility through procedures like artificial insemination with husband's semen (AIH) or in-vitro...

Other Countries

NIH Unperturbed by New Way of Peering into Personal Genomic Data

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 04.10.2012
In a provocative paper published this week, researchers say they have figured out a way to link a person's DNA...
U.S. Federal

Texas Accused of Ignoring FDA on Stem Cell Rules

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 04.10.2012

Texas’ proposed adult stem cell regulations, up for approval this week, are under fire for circumventing the Food and Drug...

Stem Cells