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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...

Block letters ATCG are positioned in a line, wtih one of the A letters in front, appearing to be erased.
By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.28.2017

Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told...

A male doctor examines a pregnant woman's exposed stomach as she lays does on a hospital bed.
By Alana Cattapan and Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 09.27.2017

Health Canada recently sought public input into new regulations for the use of assisted human reproduction. The consultation process covered...

Art exhibition featuring a plastic human model, and a colorful DNA model in the background
By Corin Faife, How We Get To Next [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.26.2017

Editing the human genome has huge potential for improving health — for those who can afford it

Debojyoti Chakraborty smiles at me from...

Kruskal–Szekeres diagram, in which there are four different colored quadrants in a grid. Two opposite quadrants are shaped as hyperbolas.
By Cathy O'neil, Boston Review | 09.25.2017

Have you heard? Someday we will live in a perfect society ruled by an omnipotent artificial intelligence, provably and utterly...

A pipette is inserted into one test tube, among several, standing upright in a test tube rack.
By Ann Givens and Robert Lewis, The Trace | 09.25.2017

The city is ramping up its efforts to collect genetic material. But the absence of oversight alarms forensic and legal...

Forensic equipment, including crime scene tape, gloves, and evidence bag.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 09.25.2017

If you’ve ever watched a prime-time crime drama like CSI, you know that DNA evidence is often the linchpin that...

Four small pigs sleep side by side on top of a ground floor covered with hay.
By Kelly Servick, Science | 09.22.2017

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—Add your name to a waitlist for a kidney transplant in the United States today, and you’ll join...

Marcy Darnovsky speaks among  panel at CRISPRcon
By Michael Fernandez, George Washington University Food Institute [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

On August 16-17, at the University of California at Berkeley, more than 300 people gathered to explore science, society and...