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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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Low-cost personal DNA readings are on the way

By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 09.06.2007

"GENETICS is about to get personal." So proclaims the website of 23andMe, a Californian company that is gearing up...

Genomics

In the Genome Race, the Sequel Is Personal

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.04.2007

The race to decode the human genome may not be entirely over: the loser has come up with a new...

Genomics

Funding crunch forces stem cell company to abandon therapies

By Monya Baker, Nature Biotechnology | 09.03.2007

With private investors apparently unwilling to back its efforts to bring a product to the clinic, Singapore's flagship stem cell...

Stem Cells

[UK] Fertility watchdog to allow use of human-animal chimera embryos for experiments

By Daily Mail, Daily Mail | 09.03.2007

A fertility watchdog is set to approve the use of human-animal embryos for research.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...

Stem Cells

"Personalized" Embryonic Stem Cells for Sale

By Emily Singer, MIT Technology Review | 08.30.2007

It's a new, rather dicey form of life insurance. A company in California called StemLifeLine has announced that it will...

Stem Cells

Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin

By Richard Owen, Times Online [UK] | 08.29.2007

Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a botched selective abortion that the Vatican has described as the result of...

Bioethics

[Illinois] Governor allows stem-cell funding

By Monique Garcia, Chicago Tribune | 08.29.2007

In an effort to woo researchers and investors to Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday signed a bill that allows public...

Stem Cells

CIRM Loses its No. 1 Scientist

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 08.27.2007

The top scientist at the California stem cell agency, Arlene Chiu, will soon depart in a move that reinforces...

Stem Cells