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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...

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Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene

By Ayesha Ahmad, BioNews | 01.23.2012

Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene...

Patents & Other IP

Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene

By Ayesha Ahmad, BioNews | 01.23.2012

Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene...

Patents & Other IP

Non-Consenting Adults

By Harriet A. Washington, Slate | 01.22.2012

Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a...

Human Rights

Non-Consenting Adults

By Harriet A. Washington, Slate | 01.22.2012

Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a...

Human Rights

Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2012
What are the chances that the prestigious Institute of Medicine will get an objective and balanced view of California’s stem-cell...
Stem Cells

Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2012
What are the chances that the prestigious Institute of Medicine will get an objective and balanced view of California’s stem-cell...
Stem Cells

Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 01.20.2012

The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for...

U.S. States

Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 01.20.2012

The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for...

U.S. States