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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...

A man and a woman holding the hands of a baby, laying on a white background.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 09.12.2018

BOSTON — Kianni Arroyo clasps 8-year-old Sophia’s hands tightly as they spin around, giggling like mad. It’s late afternoon, and there...

Gloved hands moving small test tubes from one test tube rack to another
By Chronicle Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.11.2018

California’s pioneering decision to spend $3 billion on stem cell research isn’t producing cures after 14 years of work. Instead...

Brown judge's gavel lying on a white background.
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 09.11.2018

AFTER THREE BITTER years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the epic battle over who owns one of...

DNA inside a syringe on a blue background.
By Liz Szabo, The New York Times | 09.11.2018

Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in “precision medicine” — in which doctors try...

Microscopic image of in vitro fertilization. Sperm egg infusion on blue background.
By Adam Eley, BBC | 09.10.2018

There is an urgent need to tackle a decline in male fertility and address the "absurd" reliance on giving female...

Padlock attached to a DNA strand on a blue background.
By Monica Rodriguez, Fortune | 09.10.2018

Kylie Charles spent years carefully weighing the pros and cons of genetic testing until her curiosity got the better of...

Book Cover
By Daniel Bojar, The Biologist [review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.06.2018

The dramatic pace of scientific discoveries in recent decades has not only led to remarkable improvements in domains such as...

By Erin Allday and Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.06.2018

It was an extraordinary political proposal: Approve a $3 billion bond measure to fund the cutting-edge science of stem cell...