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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 Jeanne F. Loring, Nature | 08.07.2019

For the past dozen or so years, stem-cell researchers in California have been the envy of the world. In 2004...

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By John Horgan , Scientific American | 08.05.2019

A while back my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, created a new major called science and technology studies, or STS...

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By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.05.2019

George Church, the prominent Harvard University biologist, offered a full-throated apology for having meetings and phone calls with accused sex...

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By Anna Silman, The Cut | 08.01.2019

Yesterday, the New York Times published a story about alleged sex trafficker and cartoon villain Jeffrey Epstein’s plan to...

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By Jon Cohen, Science | 08.01.2019

On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of...

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By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times | 07.31.2019

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.30.2019

The world's largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 07.29.2019

For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a...