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In their single-minded venture of “producing” (shengchan, in their own word) the world’s first gene-edited babies, He Jiankui and...
The gene-editing scandal that made headlines in late November, with researcher He Jiankui claiming to have created twin girls...
A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited...
We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA...
In 2011, poet and writer George Estreich wrote about the impact of biotechnology on family life in his first book, ...
Tracing genealogies has become immensely popular of late, and numerous companies offer to help you search through historical records or...
For the second time, doctors appear to have put HIV into “sustained remission” with a stem cell transplant — effectively...
One of the Instagram ads for Extend Fertility, a New York–based egg-freezing service for women, presents two images. First, there’s...
A Facebook post was what alerted Katelynn Gurbach to a massive tank malfunction at University Hospitals Fertility Center near Cleveland...
One night in November 1999, a 26-year-old woman was raped in a parking lot in Grand Rapids, Mich. Police officers...