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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...

By Walter Isaacson, Air Mail | 07.27.2019

QUEBEC CITY

Biology is the new tech. I’m at a conference in Quebec City on CRISPR, the molecular tool designed...

Photo of a human embryo
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.26.2019

A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and...

State of Georgia depicted in rainbow colors
By The Associated Press, NBC News | 07.24.2019

A same-sex couple in Georgia said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the U.S. State Department is unconstitutionally refusing to...

By Jonathan Lambert, Nature | 07.24.2019

Advocates for stem-cell research in California are pushing ahead with a plan to save the struggling state-funded California Institute for...

A doctor holding a DNA test swab
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 07.21.2019

Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly...

Red and blue DNA
By Samara Rosenfeld, Inside Digital Health [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.19.2019

It’s no secret that gene editing has sparked ethical concerns. In March, scientists and ethicists from seven countries issued ...

eggs under a microscope
By Ruthie Ackerman, The New York Times | 07.19.2019

I was beginning to realize I wanted to have a baby. My husband, I knew, never would.

From the time...

By Dan Cloer, Vision [cites CGS' Richard Hayes] | 07.16.2019

Fifteen thousand babies are born every hour, every day, around the world. About 3 percent, or 450 individuals, are twins...