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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 woman of color holds a circular glass object in her opened left palm.
By Jeremy Lent, Alternet | 05.17.2017

Will social inequality soon be programmed into our DNA?

The chasm between rich and poor in the world has become...

Two Q-tip swabs are vertically positioned next to each other. Blurred in the background, there is a container filled with other q-tips.
By Joel Winston, Medium | 05.17.2017

A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the...

An illustrated graphic of a side-view of a human head. Their brain appears with six small double helix icons on the side.
By Parminder Deo and Jacqueline Paulis, NBC News | 05.17.2017

DNA is what makes us who we are. In humans, our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent similar to the person...

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By Mildred Solomon, Hastings Center News | 05.16.2017

Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon delivered a keynote address at the Future of Medicine conference, a national health care conference...

Black and white graphic displaying DNA strands within tubes that are lined up.
By Matthew Brown, Associated Press | 05.16.2017

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely...

Interior of an empty courthouse, viewed in the perspective of any observer.
By Eli Rosenberg, New York Times | 05.16.2017

It has been about three months since Terrell Gills’s release from jail, and there are still sleepless nights and days...

Close up of a person in a white lab coat holding a test tube.
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 05.16.2017

He made the emotional plea to his colleagues: Pass this bill.

“It might give somebody like my wife a chance...

A purple gloved hand holds two mice.
By Tamar Lewin, New York Times | 05.16.2017

Nearly 40 years after the world was jolted by the birth of the first test-tube baby, a new revolution in...