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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...

Newborn baby lying on white towel
By Amber Haque, BBC | 09.17.2018

Labour is calling for a ban on parents-to-be being told the sex of their baby after early blood tests, amid...

Blue double helix DNA on black background
By Laura Hercher, The New York Times | 09.15.2018

In many ways, Matt Fender, a 32-year-old resident of New York City, is the prototypical 23andMe customer: tech-savvy, educated, a...

Cover of Beyond Bioethics: Helical DNA on yellow background
By Travis Chi Wing Lau , Somatosphere [review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.13.2018

The science will let loose its cascading interactions with utter impassivity; yet how we inhabit that knowledge will be a...

Pregnant woman in pink dress holding stomach
By Madeline Roache, Al Jazeera News | 09.13.2018

Kiev, Ukraine - Throughout Ukraine, advertisements about becoming a surrogate mother are plastered on buses and throughout the metro...

Large golden retriever dog lying on grass
By Jessica Hekman, Undark | 09.13.2018

The promise of a sequenced genome is like a wrapped present, containing exactly what you always wanted but never knew...

Two upright pill bottles, one pill lying down, and several loose pills, all on top of a black table
By Jennifer Tsai, Scientific American | 09.12.2018

They tell us race is an invention.

That there is more genetic variation between two black people than there is...

Three stages of human evolution, looking more like a modern man from left to right. Pencil drawings on a tan background
By Michael Schulson, Undark | 09.12.2018

LAST SPRING, Paul Strode gave an unusual survey to his advanced biology students at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado...

Technician working with test tubes
By Larry Mantle, KPCC AirTalk [features Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.12.2018

In 2004, Voters approved Proposition 71 by nearly 60 percent establishing a $3 billion bond to fund the science of...