This page contains selected news coverage about our work and that of our grantees.
In the News
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March 19, 2021
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Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
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March 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
March 16, 2021
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The Washington Post: Money can’t buy criminal justice reform. But it can fuel a movement.
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March 2021
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Criminal Justice Reform
March 12, 2021
March 02, 2021
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Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: fish
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March 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
February 15, 2021
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80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
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February 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
February 15, 2021
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
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February 2021
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Scientific Research
December 17, 2020
December 14, 2020
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
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December 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
December 13, 2020
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The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
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December 2020
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Land Use Reform
November 05, 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
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November 2020
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Scientific Research
November 02, 2020
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BioSpace: Icosavax Turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in New Financing
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November 2020
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Scientific Research
October 23, 2020
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Nikkei Asia: Thai Food Producers Shift Focus to Animal Welfare
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October 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
October 15, 2020
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Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
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October 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
October 12, 2020
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Scientific American: Lab-Made ‘Miniproteins’ Could Block the Coronavirus from Infecting Cells
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October 2020
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Scientific Research
October 05, 2020
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Stanford Medicine News Center: Jeffrey Glenn Granted $14.3 Million to Develop Broad Spectrum Drug
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October 2020
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Scientific Research
September 23, 2020
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Vox: Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
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September 2020
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Land Use Reform
September 23, 2020
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The Washington Post: The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
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September 2020
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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
September 23, 2020
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Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
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September 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
September 10, 2020
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Forbes: 2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
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September 2020
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Scientific Research
August 14, 2020
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The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
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August 2020
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Scientific Research
July 22, 2020
July 13, 2020
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San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
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July 2020
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Scientific Research
July 01, 2020
March 18, 2020
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Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
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March 2020
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Scientific Research
December 20, 2019
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Vox: A US charity just did something radical: asked recipients where the money should go
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December 2019
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Global Health & Development
October 15, 2019
October 02, 2019
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Cancer Vaccine Developers Report Bumper Crop of New Cancer Antigens
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October 2019
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Scientific Research
October 02, 2019
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Nature Biotechnology, First Rounders Podcast: Pardis Sabeti
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October 2019
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Scientific Research
September 25, 2019
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Engineers Without Borders USA: Creating Cold: The Chilling Challenge of Off-Grid Refrigeration for Developing Countries
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September 2019
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Scientific Research
September 05, 2019
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Nature: First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
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September 2019
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Scientific Research
August 19, 2019
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The Guardian: Campaigners demand end to fish tethering ‘torture’ in Taiwan
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August 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
June 12, 2019
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The New York Times: Trump Isn’t Alone. These Millennials on the Left Want Low Interest Rates, Too
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June 2019
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Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
June 07, 2019
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Vox: This charity just canceled one of its poverty programs. That’s a good thing.
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June 2019
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Global Health & Development
April 15, 2019
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The Sacramento Bee: The answer to opioid crisis? UC Davis researcher will soon test his non-addictive pain drug
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April 2019
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Scientific Research
April 01, 2019
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The New York Times: Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’
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April 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
March 21, 2019
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Forbes: With Launch Of New CRISPR Company, Competition Extends To Diagnostics
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March 2019
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Scientific Research
February 28, 2019
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The Washington Post: Georgetown launches think tank on security and emerging technology
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February 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
February 26, 2019
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Vox: GiveWell expands cost-effective giving focus to include policy interventions
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February 2019
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Global Health & Development
February 19, 2019
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Nature: Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection
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February 2019
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Scientific Research
January 29, 2019
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Vox: Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not people’s plates.
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January 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
January 19, 2019
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The Economist: How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat
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January 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
January 17, 2019
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STAT: ‘Taste of the future’: New microscopy technique captures stunning images of a fly’s brain
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January 2019
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Scientific Research
January 07, 2019
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NPR: Why This Charity Isn’t Afraid To Say It Failed
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January 2019
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Global Health & Development
December 14, 2018
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Vox: How to do good better
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December 2018
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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
December 01, 2018
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The New York Times: Forget Trinkets. These Gifts Change Lives.
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December 2018
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Global Health & Development
November 08, 2018
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The Economist: The promise and peril of gene drives
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November 2018
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Scientific Research
October 29, 2018
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Discover Magazine: Meet the Biochemist Engineering Proteins From Scratch
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October 2018
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Scientific Research
October 15, 2018
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Vox: Future Perfect, explained
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October 2018
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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
October 04, 2018
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Devex: A new US development finance agency takes flight
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October 2018
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Global Health & Development
September 26, 2018