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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 Big Ben and surroundings in London, England
By BBC, BBC | 02.28.2018

Guidance on how to start a family using a surrogate has been published for England and Wales for the first...

Sign says, "Arizona: The Grand Canyon State welcomes you"
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...

Red blood cells - 3 regular circular red blood cells and one crescent shaped sickle cell red blood cell.
By Mark Shwartz, Stanford Medicine | 02.28.2018

Once a month, David Sanchez, 15, comes to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for an infusion of donor red blood...

Two light tan dogs playing in the grass.
By Matt Stevens, New York Times | 02.28.2018

It was basically an aside — an odd and interesting nugget in an interview with Barbra Streisand that otherwise dealt...

Coded data
By Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan, Data & Society | 02.26.2018

Fairness in Precision Medicine is the first report to deeply examine the potential forbiased and discriminatory outcomes in...

A little girl holds adults hands as they balance walking.
By Suzanne Moore, The Guardian | 02.22.2018

Sometimes it seems there are so many ways to destroy women that the methods become invisible to us. There are...

Several video surveillance cameras are lined up in different angles on a wall
By Nithin Coca, Engadget | 02.22.2018

In July 2009, deadly riots broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China. Nearly 200 people died, the...

Pregnant Chinese woman lying down
By The Straits Times, The Straits Times | 02.22.2018

MELBOURNE (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Prospective Chinese mothers are increasingly travelling abroad for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and egg-freezing treatments...