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A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.

His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new...

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump administration to help encourage women to have more children.

Besides falling short of ensuring that people have what they need...

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

sleeping baby
By Erika Check Hayden, The New York Times | 10.26.2022

Weeks after Valeria Schenkel took an experimental drug named after her, the daily seizures that had afflicted her from birth...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.25.2022

Paul Cézanne, Pyramide de crânes, via Wikipedia

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made...

Black man
By Amber Ferguson, The Washington Post | 10.20.2022

TreVaughn Roach-Carter had been waiting to donate his sperm for nearly two years in early 2020 when he visited the...

a black mother holding her baby
By Amber Ferguson, The Washington Post | 10.20.2022

Every night a little after 1 a.m., following her shift as a guard at a women’s prison, Reese Brooks...

an IVF embryo
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 10.19.2022

When Sarka Lisonkova and her colleagues set out to study disparities in the birth outcomes of people who’ve used methods...

A person in an electric wheelchair
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.19.2022

For a quarter of a century, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard, has heard the same story...

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By McKenzie Prillaman, Nature | 10.19.2022

Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

Nadine Caron was horrified by...

the building entrance reading "Imperial College London" with blue sky and clouds in the background
By Philip Ball, Nature | 10.19.2022

Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

In February, the nineteenth-century naturalist...