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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...

An old medical drawing shows 7 individual sperm overlapping one another.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.29.2018

In the wild uproar around an experiment in China that claimed to have created twin girls whose genes were altered...

15 colored pencils stand upright spanning the color spectrum from yellow to green to blue to indigo to red to orange to brown to gray.
By Emily Mullin, Neo.Life/Medium | 11.29.2018

Jiankui He stunned the world this week when a report revealed he had edited genes in human embryos aiming to...

A train sits stopped in a Beijing train station.
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 11.29.2018

BEIJING — China said on Thursday that it had suspended the work of a scientist who claims to have created...

Scientist in dark room bent over looking at a petri dish
By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff and Krishanu Saha, The Washington Post | 11.29.2018

This is the experiment that was not supposed to happen.

A Chinese scientist claimed this week that he had produced...

Blue double helix DNA on black background
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio [cites CGS] | 11.29.2018

A Chinese scientist's claims that he created the world's first gene-edited babies is a "deeply disturbing" and "irresponsible" violation of...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Dennis Normile, Science [cites CGS] | 11.29.2018

HONG KONG, CHINA—An international conference on human gene editing dominated by news of the birth of the world's first...

A close up shot of a lab microscope with one of three focal heads pointed at a piece of glass and sample below.
By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.28.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher who claims to have helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies says...

A wideshot of the inside of a surgery staging area, with the various clinical stations set up, but no persons visible.
By Anna Louie Sussman, The Guardian | 11.28.2018

In 2016, after seven years trying to conceive, New York state assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte was pregnant with twins...