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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...

Picture of the white, domed, United States Capital building.
By Editorial Board, The Washington Post | 09.04.2018

THE SEARCH for the so-called Golden State Killer — who allegedly raped dozens of women and killed at least 12...

Book cover for Beyond Bioethics with twisted DNA strand on a yellow background.
By Jordan Liz, Metapsychology Online Reviews [Review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.04.2018

From the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, to the FDA's approval of BiDil as the first race-specific medication to...

ICSI
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 09.03.2018

Children born through IVF are six times more likely to suffer high blood pressure than naturally conceived children, putting them...

By Silvia Blanco, El País | 08.31.2018

The Spanish Consulate in Kiev is examining the cases of 30 Spanish families currently in Ukraine and who are unable...

A black and white illustration shows Dr. Frankenstein in a lab with a partially assembled skeleton on the table
By Andrew Smith, The Guardian | 08.30.2018

The 18th of March 2018, was the day tech insiders had been dreading. That night, a new moon added...

Sign at the March for Science reads "Science Makes America Great"
By Rebecca Onion, Slate | 08.29.2018

Advocates of science are in a bad place right now. Some days, in this Second Year of Trump, scientism—a blanket...

illustration of red blood cells
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 08.29.2018

Jeff Johnson is 40 years old, and for all 40 of those years, he has been living with hemophilia. The...

Four eggs in a shallow wicker basket
By Judy Norsigian & Dr. Gary Richwald, Golden Gate Xpress | 08.29.2018

An April 25th article in the Golden Gate Xpress about donating eggs raises important issues for young women considering this...