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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...

Image of the Toronto skyline at sunset.
By CTVNews.ca Staff, CTV News | 06.18.2018

An Ontario couple has filed notice of legal action against a Toronto fertility clinic after an alleged storage tank malfunction...

A computer generated animation of a cross-section of a human heart beating.
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 06.18.2018

In our human genome, there are many elusive genetic variants related to medical conditions, but the impact of these...

MyGene Genetic Testing Kit including 2 swabs for collecting samples and ID card for customer
By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.18.2018

Rita Adele Steyn's mother had a double mastectomy in her 40s because she had so many lumps in her breasts...

An artist's rendering of a futuristic-looking human figure made up of nitrogenous bases A, T, C, and G.
By Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.16.2018

The business of personal genetic-testing kits is booming, with consumers able to learn about their ancestry and health risks at...

A pregnant woman in a pink dress holds her stomach.
By Elizabeth Katkin, Marie Claire | 06.15.2018

After six miscarriages, six fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles, two frozen IVF cycles, and one healthy not yet two-year-old...

Close up photograph of a white "delete" key from an Apple computer.
By Kristen V. Brown, Bloomberg | 06.15.2018

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In the name of journalism, I have spit into a lot of test tubes.

I’ve sent samples...

Close up of a light brown chihuahua's head gazing at the camera against a grey background.
By CBC Canada, CBC News | 06.14.2018

A suspected Indian status scam that told a man he shared genetic ancestry with a dog should serve as a reminder...

Blue-tinted image of a human oocyte pierced by a needle.
By John D. Loike and Alan Kadish, The Scientist [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.14.2018

On June 7, news reports emerged that Valery Zukin, director of Nadiya Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Ukraine...