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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 line drawing of a globe with a face. One eye is looking out a spyglass.
By Sheila Jasanoff and J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Nature | 03.21.2018

In August 2017, scientists reported that they had used the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to correct a mutation in viable human...

University Hospitals building in Cleveland, Ohio
By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.21.2018

CLEVELAND, Ohio - After two recent failures of cryotanks storing eggs and embryos, a number of agencies and organizations are...

microscopic image of human embryonic stem cells
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 03.20.2018

Dieter Egli was just about to start graduate school in 1998 when researchers first worked out how to derive human...

Tubes of human blood
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.19.2018

This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever...

Chromosome being unwound
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 03.15.2018

DNA is the code of life, and so advances that allow us to edit that code have unlocked vast potential...

A photo showing a white man, seated on a couch, holding a newborn in his arms.
By Amy Packham, Huffington Post | 03.14.2018

Male infertility is the most common reason couples in the UK have IVF treatment, official UK data has revealed. 

The most...

Josiah Zayner
By Alex Lash, Xconomy [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2018

Gene editing has arrived. Of the various forms of the technology, CRISPR-Cas9 is the easiest to use, and it’s already...

A gavel rests on a circular wooden stand.
By Amy Goldstein and Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 03.12.2018

An Ohio couple who lost both their frozen embryos when a fertility clinic's storage tank overheated last week are the...