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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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Here, Blue Still Wins Over Pink

By Radhika Oberoi, The Times of India | 08.05.2008
NEW DELHI: Pink booties or blue? If the child sex ratio of the country is anything to go by, a...
Genetic Selection

Baby Business Boom

By Monifa Thomas, Chicago Sun-Times | 08.01.2008

Bad news for the economy can be good news for the baby business.

Some Chicago area fertility clinics say they've...

Assisted Reproduction

Selling Your Eggs: No Big Deal?

By Melissa Lafsky, The Huffington Post | 08.01.2008
Last week, I heard a panel of women speak in a Lower East Side bar. They each had three things...
Assisted Reproduction

Disgraced Clone Expert Barred from Work

By The West Australian, The West Australian | 07.31.2008

South Korea will not allow disgraced cloning expert Hang Woo-suk to resume human stem cell research, it has been reported...

Human Cloning

Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells

By Sally Lehrman, Scientific American | 07.31.2008
Sitting by the window of a posh coastal hotel in Half Moon Bay, Calif., wearing a baby-blue sweater and khakis...
Stem Cells

Scientists: Egg Shortage Hurts Stem Cell Research

By Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press | 07.30.2008
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Facing a human egg shortage they say is preventing medical breakthroughs, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs...
Stem Cells

Reproductive Tourism a Growing Worry, Experts Say

By Michael Kahn, Reuters | 07.24.2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty years after British doctors delivered the world's first test tube baby, Louise Brown, fertility experts say...
Assisted Reproduction

German TV Documentary Suggests Genetic Doping is Possible in China

By DPA, Deutsche Presse-Agentur | 07.22.2008

Dusseldorf - A German television documentary suggesting that genetic doping is possible in the Olympic host country of China has...

Human Genetic Modification