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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...

Elizabeth Warren speaking at podium
By Alondra Nelson, The New York Times | 10.17.2018

This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announced that geneticists had analyzed her DNA and proved her longstanding claim that...

Padlock attached to a DNA strand on a blue background.
By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg | 10.15.2018

In theory, taking a DNA test to reveal your ancestry is optional. But it’s on its way to becoming obligatory...

Elizabeth Warren speaking at a podium
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 10.15.2018

Has there ever been such an elaborate rollout for the results of a DNA test?

On Monday morning, Elizabeth Warren—Massachusetts...

Four rows of all of the human chromosomes, labeled by number
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 10.11.2018

The genetic genealogy industry is booming. In recent years, more than 15 million people have offered up their DNA —...

Gloved hands putting pipet into test tubes
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 10.11.2018

Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year...

Six steps of cell division
By Nishakanthi Gopalan et al., Biotechnology Law Report | 10.09.2018

Abstract

Stem cell (SC) technology has spurred many debates among experts which highlight both the deficiency of current regulation and...

Brown mouse standing on a white background
By Sharon Begley, Stat | 10.08.2018

Nearly 40 years after surgeons first operated on fetuses to cure devastating abnormalities, researchers have taken the first step toward...

Different colored test tubes with double stranded DNA inside
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 10.08.2018

People from minority ethnic backgrounds are set to lose out on medical benefits of genetics research due to an overwhelming...