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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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Sometimes, it's hush-hush over donor eggs

By TERI SFORZA, Orange County Register | 10.08.2007

A generation or two ago, adoption was often a family secret. The rule was: Hush, hush. Don't tell. What they...

Assisted Reproduction

Stem Cell Chief a Top Scientist

By Jim Downing, Sacramento Bee | 10.05.2007

When Australian researcher Alan Trounson visited the San Francisco headquarters of California's stem cell agency this summer, he couldn't figure...

U.S. States

Food from Cloned Animals

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.05.2007

Californians should be allowed to know what they're eating. That's the simple reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign SB63...

Biotech & Pharma

Exoneration Using DNA Brings Change in Legal System

By SOLOMON MOORE, New York Times | 10.01.2007

State lawmakers across the country are adopting broad changes to criminal justice procedures as a response to the exoneration of...

Racial Justice

Researchers Detour Around Stem-Cell Rules

By Bijal Trivedi, Chronicle of Higher Education | 10.01.2007
James A. Byrne sits in a waiting room at the Stanford Fertility & Reproductive Medicine Center with an incubator next...
Human Cloning

Death in gene therapy trial raises questions about private IRBs

By Heidi Ledford, Nature Biotechnology | 09.30.2007
Osagie Obasogie took notice when he heard about the death of Jolee Mohr, who passed away on July 24 after...
Biotech & Pharma

Report Assails F.D.A. Oversight of Clinical Trials

By GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times | 09.28.2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of...

U.S. Federal

Human Ova Trade to Be Banned

By Kim Rahn, The Korea Times | 09.27.2007
Limited scientific research on somatic cell nuclear transfers for possible cures of fatal diseases will be permitted following a revision...
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