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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 photo of Simone and Malcolm Collins
By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

It's a...

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By Chantal Bittner, Bill of Health | 02.04.2025

One of the central topics of the election campaign was undoubtedly abortion—a key issue in the fight for reproductive justice...

a photo of a gloved hand handling a Petri dish in a laboratory
By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid, Reuters | 02.03.2025

Photo by Drew Hays on Unsplash

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers...

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By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 02.03.2025

Following a lengthy litigation, the co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America and related companies have been prohibited from...

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By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Science | 01.30.2025

In February 1975, leading molecular biologists gathered at the Asilomar conference center on the California coast to evaluate risks of...

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By Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic | 01.27.2025

After my 20th shot of hormones, I texted my boyfriend, only half kidding, “I’m dying.” We had decided to freeze...

embryo graphic on blue background
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.26.2025
Mass-producing eggs and sperm in a laboratory in order to have a baby with yourself or three other people in...
graphic of egg retrieval
By Jackie Davalos, Rachel Adams-Heard, and Kendall Taggart, Bloomberg | 01.24.2025

For women in the US seeking fertility treatment or considering donating their eggs, there’s a fair amount of information they...