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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...

Human embryo on blue background
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.26.2018

A Chinese scientist's claim that he edited DNA in embryos that developed into twin baby girls has set off a...

Doctor holding pipette
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.26.2018

Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the...

Pipet in a test tube
By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.26.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin...

clip art of helix and pencil
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2018

When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global...

A close-up on a hand with a pen writing on pieces of paper on a desk.
By Marcy Darnovsky, Boston Review | 11.19.2018

In her essay, Merve Emre declares that “all reproduction . . . is assisted.” Few feminists of any wave or...

street signs reading "Success Ln" and "Failure Dr"
By Jacob Ward, The New York Times Magazine | 11.16.2018

In 1999, a trio of economists emerged from a conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, squinting without sunglasses...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Matthew Weaver, The Guardian | 11.12.2018

IVF clinics have been putting profits before patient care by charging clients for expensive treatment add-ons that have no proven...

Mosquito on skin
By Briefing, The Economist | 11.08.2018

“I think I got it,” says Alekos Simoni with a grin, returning an electronic fly zapper called “The Executioner” to...