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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...

US Congress building
By Andrew Joseph, STAT+ | 07.15.2019

A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China...

book cover for "Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
By Alexandra Minna Stern, Salon | 07.14.2019

If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated...

Google Street View Image of the CHA Fertility Center building
By Ashley Collman, Business Insider | 07.12.2019

A Los Angeles fertility clinic has been hit with two lawsuits from clients who said their embryos were mixed up...

demonstrators at a white supremacist rally
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 07.12.2019

On the hate site Stormfront, one of the largest online discussion forums dedicated to “white pride,” sharing DNA results with fellow members has become a...

Human Fetus at Nine Weeks
By Oscar Schwartz, OneZero | 07.09.2019

For years, hopeful parents pursuing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment have had the option of screening embryos for severe heritable...

By Staff Writer, CBS Los Angeles [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.09.2019

An unidentified New York couple is suing a Los Angeles fertility clinic after they claim the woman gave birth to...

Photo of Françoise Balis
By Gemma Buck, National Post | 07.08.2019

Canadian bioethicists and genetics experts are speaking out against Denis Rebrikov, the Russian molecular biologist who plans — in defiance...

Blue stylized images of DNA
By Isabelle Altman, The Dispatch [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.06.2019

A strand of DNA analyzed in a rape kit from 1990 was the key piece of evidence in Starkville Police...