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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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Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

By Brendan Maher, Nature | 06.11.2008
US stem-cell researchers are calling for changes to state laws that prohibit compensating women who donate eggs for research. The...
Stem Cells

Fight to Clone a Human

By Suellen Hinde and Fiona Hudson, The Herald Sun | 06.08.2008
A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two groups.

Teams...
Stem Cells

As GINA is Signed Into Law, Most Predict Great Gains, But Some See Shortcomings, Others Find a Mixed Bag

By John T. Aquino, The Bureau of National Affairs | 06.05.2008

President Bush May 21 signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which prohibits employers, health plans, and insurers from...

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Stem cell researchers face down stem cell tourism

By Bryn Nelson, Nature Reports Stem Cells | 06.05.2008

In April, a paralysed man returning to Colorado from experimental stem cell therapy in India said he could feel the...

Stem Cells

"Three parent" embryos to fight disease

By Kate Devlin, Telegraph | 06.05.2008

Earlier this year a team at Newcastle University created the first IVF embryos to contain DNA from one man and...

Assisted Reproduction

Embryo-Free Stem Cell Research Gets Boost

By Roger Highfield, Telegraph | 06.04.2008
Dolly the Sheep scientist Sir Ian Wilmut exclusively revealed to The Daily Telegraph last year his intention to adopt one...
Stem Cells

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

By Marcy Darnovsky, Nature | 06.04.2008

Your Editorial 'New sources of sex cells' (Nature 452, 913; 2008), on the potential use of pluripotent stem-cell-derived gametes (PSCDGs)...

Human Genetic Modification

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

By David E. Winickoff and Osagie K. Obasogie, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences | 06.04.2008

Numerous articles and commentaries in the health literature recently have questioned the emergence of race as an increasingly powerful organizing...

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