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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...

IVF
By Alex Matthews-King, The Independent | 04.13.2018

People hoping to be parents in the UK are being sold “false hope” by foreign IVF clinics claiming success rates...

Chinese newborn baby in hospital
By Christina Zhao, Newsweek | 04.12.2018

A Chinese baby was born by a surrogate mother four years after his parents were killed in a car accident.

Parents...

Newborn baby crying in hospital
By Tracy Samilton, Michigan Radio | 04.12.2018

Saginaw attorney Philip Ellison has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of nine parents whose infants' blood was taken and...

A stack of 3 US dollar bills. The top bill is a $1, then $20, and then another $1.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.12.2018

An analyst at Goldman Sachs asked a troubling question this week about gene therapy.

“Is curing patients a sustainable business...

Chinese flag blowing in the wind
By Javier Hernandez, The New York Times | 04.11.2018

BEIJING — The advertisement for sperm donors was exacting.

No bald men. No hereditary diseases like color blindness. And in...

Burnt orange colored monkey swinging through the trees in central america
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 04.11.2018

Sometime this year, people in the US and Europe will start getting treated for diseases using the gene-editing tool CRISPR...

dragon
By David Ewing Duncan, Neo.life | 04.05.2018

Drew Endy almost can’t talk fast enough to convey everything he has to say. It’s a wonderfully complex message filled...

4 open micro-centrifuge tubes being filled by pipet with DNA.
By Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post | 04.03.2018

Julie Kennerly-Shah and Summit Shah were dating back in 2016 when they decided to buy kits from 23andMe, the popular...