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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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Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian [UK] | 01.14.2012
Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding...
Synthetic Biology

Study Finds Doctors Shouldn’t Transfer 3 or More Embryos into Women Having IVF at Any Age

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press / Washington Post | 01.12.2012

LONDON — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better...
Assisted Reproduction

Study Finds Doctors Shouldn’t Transfer 3 or More Embryos into Women Having IVF at Any Age

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press / Washington Post | 01.12.2012

LONDON — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better...
Assisted Reproduction

Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program

By Kim Severson, New York Times | 01.11.2012

ATLANTA — The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North...
Racial Justice

Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program

By Kim Severson, New York Times | 01.11.2012

ATLANTA — The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North...
Racial Justice

Expanded N.Y. DNA Database Would Seek To Exonerate the Innocent, Expose the Guilty

By CBS NY, CBS New York | 01.11.2012

The state of New York is considering a dramatic expansion of its DNA collection. New Yorkers who find themselves under...

Technologies

U.S. Pledges $1.8 Million in Response to Unethical Guatemalan Medical Studies

By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post | 01.10.2012
Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that...
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U.S. Pledges $1.8 Million in Response to Unethical Guatemalan Medical Studies

By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post | 01.10.2012
Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that...
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