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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...

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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 Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times | 06.04.2024

Peter Diamandis, a week away from turning 63, bounds out of a Starbucks on a recent morning with a cup...

Spacious greenhouse with growing potted plants lined up in several rows.
By Miri (Margaret) Raven, Alana Gall, Bibi Barba, and Daniel Robinson, The Conversation | 06.02.2024

Image by Ahmet Kurt from Unsplash

Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World...

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By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 06.02.2024

With the recent Philippines court decision blocking the further planting of GM Golden Rice in the country, pro-GMO advocates have...

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By Vardit Ravitsky and Louise King, Scientific American | 06.01.2024

Artificial wombs are moving from the realm of science fiction to possible trials with severely premature human babies. We...

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By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 05.31.2024

Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of...

a graphic showing lab grown egg and sperm
By Shelly Fan, Singularity Hub | 05.31.2024

We all know the drill for reproduction—sperm meets egg.

For the past decade, scientists have been pushing the boundaries of...

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By Liz Szabo, The New York Times | 05.29.2024

By the time Rena Barrow-Wells gave birth to her fourth baby in 2020, she was well-versed in caring for a...

Image shows the Indian flag, comprised of 3 colored stripes of orange, white and green from top to bottom with an emblem at the center of the middle white stripe, flying high with the sky as the background.
By Suraj Gogoi, News Laundry | 05.28.2024

Image by Naveed Ahmed from Unsplash

Despite the tremendous diversity of languages and cultures in India, we are all but...