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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...

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By Annalee Armstrong, BioSpace | 09.11.2024

Complex gene therapies are starting to hit the market but all have faced the same reality: a tepid reception from...

Synthetic Embryo
By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.11.2024

Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like...

interior of ivf clinic
By Andrew Messenger, The Guardian | 09.10.2024

A groundbreaking legislated crackdown on Queensland fertility providers has sparked calls to establish a national register for children conceived with...

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By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 09.09.2024

Image by Stephen Andrews from Unsplash

Yale agreed on Monday to pay dozens of patients who had filed lawsuits claiming...

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By Ari Schulman, The New York Times | 09.09.2024

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

Stethoscope
By Katie Palmer and Usha Lee McFarling, Stat | 09.03.2024

Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash

Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In her 20 years caring for...

graphic of sperm donor
By Sophie Zadeh, PET | 09.02.2024

Dr Sophie Zadeh presents an overview of the Young Adults Study which has garnered the views of donor conceived young...

Egg Donation
By Pandora Dewan, Newsweek | 09.02.2024

Egg donation offers thousands of U.S. couples the opportunity to start a family, enabling them to carry a child when...