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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...

Promise and Peril of CRISPR cover
By Staff, The Medicine Maker | 03.21.2025

"The Promise and Peril of CRISPR" cover by Johns Hopkins University Press

As a paediatrician taking care of children with...

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By ACLU Northern California | 03.21.2025

In a long-standing lawsuit, the ACLU, on behalf of partner organizations and an individual taxpayer, is challenging the state of...

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By Michael Gibney, PharmaVoice | 03.20.2025

The death this week of a teenager receiving Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy Elevidys for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a tragic...

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By Frank Landymore, Futurism | 03.18.2025

You can only throw so much money at a problem.

This, more or less, is the line being taken by...

He Jiankui
By Luis Prada, Vice | 03.14.2025

public domain photo by Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons

Back in 2019, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui proudly announced to...

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By Dalton Conley, The New York Times | 03.13.2025

Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we...

IVF lab equipment photo
By Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times | 03.13.2025

A United Nations commission on Thursday accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive...