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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...

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By Joel Michael Reynolds, Aeon Ideas | 03.05.2018

When I was three years old, I was told that my brother Jason had a 95 per cent chance of...

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By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 03.05.2018

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has...

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By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 03.04.2018

“Three parent babies!!!!” was a shock-horror headline across the world when the UK was debating mitochondrial replacement therapy a couple...

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By Sujatha Byravan , The Hindu | 03.03.2018

The Delhi High Court recently ruled against discrimination in health insurance by United India Insurance Company involving a person with...

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By Gavin Evans, The Guardian | 03.02.2018

One of the strangest ironies of our time is that a body of thoroughly debunked “science” is being revived by...

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By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.01.2018

Back in 2004, when California's stem cell agency was little more than an idea in the minds of researchers, its...

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By Ellen Trachman , Above The Law | 02.28.2018

Talk about a terrible effort at legislation. The latest embryo disposition bill out of the Grand Canyon State, SB 1392...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 02.28.2018

In a massively ambitious project aimed at improving the health of its 3 million residents, the city of Dubai plans...