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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...

Three boxes of 23andMe kits stand upright in a line. Two of the boxes have been blurred, and one of them is centrally focused.
By Pete Shanks, Medical Laboratory Observer | 07.25.2017

The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing industry has been around for just over a decade. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Surgical equipment is laid out on a tray
By Zoë Beery, The Outline | 07.25.2017

Coerced sterilizations are a shade away from eugenics.

Last Thursday, Tennessee judge Sam Benningfield was suddenly inundated with accusations of...

In a dark background, a human finger touches the glowing screen from a smartphone.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 07.24.2017

Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it

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An African Americna male patient looks carefully at a needle injected by a white researcher.
By William Bender, Philly News | 07.20.2017

Hundreds of black men were tricked into volunteering as human guinea pigs. For 40 years, no one stepped in to...

A laboratory scientist's right arm is shown, using a multi-channel pipette.
By Carrie Arnold, Mosaic Science | 07.18.2017

Bringing genetics into medicine leads to more accuracy, better diagnosis and personalised treatment – but not for all. Carrie Arnold meets

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Abstract design of several double helices crossing over each other against a black background.
By The Inquiry, BBC [features Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.16.2017

"This structure has novel features, which are of considerable biological interest." It was perhaps the greatest understatement of all time...

A pile of cotton swabs.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.14.2017

The premise behind Yes or No Genomics is simple: Genetic disease is typically caused by a variation in at least...

Animated black and white photo of a man on top of a galloping horse.
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times | 07.13.2017

You might call it the smallest movie ever made.

This week, a team of scientists report that they have successfully...