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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...

He Jiankui speaks during the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Nov. 28, 2018.
By Sharon Begley, STAT News | 05.28.2019

The condemnation of the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genome-edited babies last year was far from universal: A...

Embryo selection for IVF
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.24.2019

Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a...

Empty chairs at a board room table with microphones
By Staff Writer, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.22.2019

The U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the Royal Society of the...

newborn baby feet with hospital bracelet
By Editorial Board, The Washington Post | 05.21.2019

WHEN CHINESE scientist He Jiankui announced last November his experiments making heritable genetic changes in human embryos followed by live...

Latest gloves and mouth swab
By Lidia Davis, Reviews.com [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.20.2019

As morbid as it sounds, life insurance companies want to know how long you’ll be around, and figuring that out...

House of cards
By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 05.17.2019

In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk...

Gloved hand holding vial of DNA
By Kevin Brasler, Consumers' Checkbook [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.15.2019

While it’s fun to submit DNA to a testing service to learn you might be 10 percent Nigerian, Norwegian, or...

Man surveying land
By Françoise Baylis, Issues in Science and Technology | 05.15.2019

In late November 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui ignited a media firestorm with the birth announcement of “healthy” twin...