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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...

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By Staff, BBC | 09.12.2022

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People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) are being sought to participate in the world's largest genetic study of...

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By Olive Heffernan, Scientific American | 09.12.2022

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After nearly two weeks of recent United Nations negotiations in New York City, countries from around...

a hand intervenes in a strand of DNA
By Jennifer A. Doudna, The Atlantic | 09.12.2022

Two years ago, I was working on my laptop in an airport lounge in Newark, New Jersey, when I glanced...

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By Anna Leahy, The Washington Post | 09.09.2022

Vintage Press, book design by Debbie Glasserman

Alice Wong was born with muscular dystrophy, which hampered her ability to walk...

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By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.08.2022

A group of 56 international scientists and policy experts have published a statement opposing the use of the term “precision...

Françoise Baylis
By Nahlah Ayed (interviewer), CBC Ideas | 09.06.2022

“Why is it that we think we can just take everything, everything, and modify it for ourselves?” asks Françoise...

a photo of a commemorative monument in Tulsa on Black Wall Street, site of the Tulsa Race Massacre
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 09.06.2022

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On the night of May 31, 1921, a white mob descended on the affluent Black neighborhood...