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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...

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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Genetic 'MoT' for disease free babies

By Kate Devlin, The Telegraph | 06.30.2009
The technique, known as karyomapping, has the potential to spot virtually any inherited genetic disease.

It can also pick up...
Genetic Selection

'Hundreds' going abroad for IVF

By Emma Wilkinson, BBC News | 06.29.2009
Hundreds of British couples travel to the continent every month for fertility treatment because they cannot get it at home...
Assisted Reproduction

New York to Pay Women to Give Eggs for Stem Cell Research

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 06.25.2009
New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic...
Stem Cells

Non-profit offers cash for birth control

By Kristyn Caddell, WATE 6 | 06.24.2009
Cash for birth control may sound unusual, but it's one woman's crusade to stop drug addicts and alcoholics from giving...
Eugenics

Stem cell chief's exit is long overdue

By Editorial, Sacramento Bee | 06.20.2009

Palo Alto developer Robert Klein II led the ballot campaign in 2004 to create California's stem cell research institute. He...

Stem Cells

Life on Ice

By Tali Woodward, Newsweek online | 06.19.2009
Police cruisers typically escort heads of state, but on a November morning in 1995, the VIP heading down California's Highway...
Assisted Reproduction

Justices Reject Inmate Right to DNA Tests

By Adam Liptak, New York Times | 06.19.2009
Prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing that might prove their innocence, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in...
U.S. Federal

Obama Plans to Replace Bush’s Bioethics Panel

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 06.18.2009
Members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House last week that their services were no...
Bioethics