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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...

a golden dna strand
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 08.17.2022

After 10 years of effort, medical researchers at Columbia University have developed a very fast and cheap way to detect...

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By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 08.17.2022

The FDA on Wednesday approved the first gene therapy for a chronic condition — bluebird bio’s new Zynteglo (beti-cel) as...

a display of all chromosomes
By Bonnie Rochman, MIT Technology Review | 08.16.2022

When Ollie’s mother, Katie, was nine weeks pregnant, her obstetrician-gynecologist’s office in Boulder, Colorado, offered her a special $100 price...

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By James Fair, Discover Wildlife | 08.16.2022

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Plans to bring back the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, also known as thylacine –...

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By Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 08.14.2022

Photo by Polina Rytova on Unsplash

Science Magazine recently published a paper in which Chinese scientists reported massive yield gains...

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By Mark Terry, BioSpace | 08.12.2022

Novartis’ gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has had a complicated history, of which there is a...

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By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 08.12.2022

The Mount Sinai Health System began an effort this week to build a vast database of patient genetic information that...

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By Kelsey Piper , Vox | 08.10.2022

There are teams of researchers in academia and at major AI labs these days working on the problem of AI...