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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...

Mother and child holding each other and posing in the street.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 12.27.2018

Logan Andreotta had been told she was an ideal candidate for in vitro fertilization. Though unable to get pregnant, the...

A pregnant woman holding her belly.
By Deepa V., Sarojini Nadimpally and Oshin Siao Bhatt, The Wire | 12.20.2018

The news of the passing of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016 on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha prompts us to...

A group of Japanese 10 year olds sitting at there school desks.
By Norikazu Chiba, The Mainichi | 12.19.2018

TOKYO -- The Japanese Society for Hygiene, which was active in promoting eugenic policies under the now-defunct eugenic protection law...

United Nations logo in black.
By Marcia Frellick, Medscape [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 12.18.2018

The World Health Organization (WHO) is creating a global panel to study human gene editing and the scientific, legal, social...

researches removes DNA from a test tube.
By Chronicle Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.14.2018

California is being sued over its DNA collection practices, and the only thing that’s surprising is how long it took...

Test tube pipette held in the hand of a scientist.
By Jing-Bao Nie, Neil Pickering, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 12.13.2018

When the world’s first research on editing the genes of human embryos by Chinese scientists  was published in an international...

Pregnant woman holding her belly.
By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.13.2018

Three of the most influential scientific organizations in the world are calling for an urgent international effort to prevent scientists...

There is a chalk drawing of a strong man behind a smaller person wearing a hood and looking down.
By Ellen Wright Clayton, Nature | 12.12.2018

The year is 2030. Gene therapy to insert the DNA sequence for dystrophin has been approved by regulators and is...