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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...

A laboratory scientist, in goggles, and protective gear, holds a pipette and concentrates on placing a sample of liquid into a test tube.
By Jim Petro, Cincinnati- USA Today Network | 06.19.2017

As a state legislator, I served on the House committee that drafted Ohio’s current death penalty law. Later, as Ohio...

An unused 23andMe kit, displayed with box open and containing specimen bag, cotton swab, and vile container.
By Jessica Cussins, The Pharmaceutical Journal | 06.19.2017

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has, for the first time, granted permission to a company to provide limited...

Photo of Charpentier presenting, with a picture of microscopic cells in the background.
By Sarah Buhr, Tech Crunch | 06.19.2017

Continuing the patent dispute internationally, China has now given the Charpentier/Doudna side a patent to edit genes in the country.

CRISPR...

Portrait photo of a Cambodian woman smiling, while sitting on the ground.
By South China Morning Post | 06.18.2017

Peeling a mango inside her rickety wooden shack, Chhum Long explained how her daughter’s decision to nurture a Western couple’s...

The Earth in orbit, with one side illuminated by the sun, and the other side in darkness.
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times | 06.17.2017

There’s a well-to-do couple thinking about having children. They order a battery of genetic tests to ensure that there’s nothing...

Two pigs, in a barn, gaze directly at the camera.
By Angela Chen, The Verge | 06.16.2017

The road to growing organs in pigs is paved with ethical questions

In 2003, a South Korean company called Maria...

A double helix diagonally positioned as if it were moving. Small speckles surround it.
By Ed Young, The Atlantic | 06.16.2017

Three Stanford scientists have proposed a provocative new way of thinking about genetic variants, and how they affect people’s bodies

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Microscopic image of an oocyte and the tip of a syringe.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.16.2017

Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been...