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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...

Black and white photo of the palm of an adult's hands  holding a newborn's feet.
By Leila Fadel, NPR | 01.26.2018

Aiden and Ethan Dvash-Banks share pretty much everything. The 16-month-old twins were born four minutes apart, from the same womb...

A black woman kisses a young black girl with joy and love expressed on their faces. In the background, there is a city back drop with other people walking on the sidewalk is featured, but out of focus and blurred.
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times | 01.25.2018

For centuries, people have drawn the line between nature and nurture.

In the nineteenth century, the English polymath Francis Galton...

Macaque monkey eating
By Jim Axelrod, CBS News [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.24.2018

There has been a big scientific breakthrough that may bring the world one step closer to cloning humans. Two female...

By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.24.2018

For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing...

Baby macaque monkey riding on an adult macaque's back
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.24.2018

Chinese researchers have finally figured out how to clone a primate, using the same technique Scottish researchers devised to clone...

A blue spherical design structure with lighting effects that highlight its surface texture. The texture can be described as popping out in geometrical patterns.
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 01.24.2018

MOST PEOPLE USE Google's search-by-image featureto either look for copyright infringement, or for shopping. See some shoes you like on...

The online search engine, Google icon appears, with a magnifying glass.
By Lindsay King-Miller, Rewire | 01.24.2018

And how should parents—especially queer parents—manage their expectations around it?

My friend’s daughter Emma looks a lot like my daughter...

Close-up of a young monkey
By Marcy Darnovsky, New Scientist | 01.24.2018

Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to...