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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...

One of the Instagram ads for Extend Fertility, a New York–based egg-freezing service for women, presents two images. First, there’s...

A Facebook post was what alerted Katelynn Gurbach to a massive tank malfunction at University Hospitals Fertility Center near Cleveland...

One night in November 1999, a 26-year-old woman was raped in a parking lot in Grand Rapids, Mich. Police officers...

In the wake of the shocking news that one of its scientists had produced genetically altered babies, the Chinese government...

After years of back pain, Timothy Lunceford decided in July to try an injection of umbilical cord blood, an unproven...

Millions were shocked to learn of the birth of gene-edited babies last year, but apparently several scientists were already in...

BEIJING — Three government institutions in China, including the nation’s science ministry, may have funded the “CRISPR babies” study that...

In 1985, the chemist Steven A. Benner sat down with some colleagues and a notebook and sketched out a way...