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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...

graphic for disability reproductive equity day
By Sara Luterman, The 19th News | 05.23.2024

Historically, the disability and reproductive rights movements have operated separately, “just ignoring each other,” as one advocate put it, as...

Image is the multi-colored sign of Google's logo at the top of a building, in which each letter alternates in color in the order of blue for G, red for o, yellow for o, blue for g, green for l, and red for e.
By Kylie Robison, The Verge | 05.23.2024

Image by Pawel Czerwinski from Unsplash

Imagine this: you’ve carved out an evening to unwind and decide to make a...

stop forced sterilization
By Ma’ayan Anafi, National Women's Law Center | 05.22.2024

Just under a century ago this May, the Supreme Court handed down an infamous ruling upholding a Virginia law that...

Image is a graphic of a vial with a red cap filled with blood, and a circle containing a zoom-in view of the blood inside the vial, which shows crescent-shaped blood cells indicative of sickle cell disease.
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Scientific American | 05.22.2024

Last fall, to great fanfare, US regulators approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, and the European Union...

sickle cell fertility graphic
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 05.21.2024

BATON ROUGE, La. — The surgery was supposed to alleviate worry, but now, years later, Whitney Carter’s mind kept flicking...

Image is a graphic of an individual holding a vial that is depicted to contain sperm, with a graphic right next to it showing this being recorded on a piece of paper.
By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, NPR | 05.14.2024

JOHNSON COUNTY, Kansas — Ever since she was little, Sharla knew she wanted to be a mom. Sharla has...

Image shows a pipet inserting some sort of liquid into petri dish under a microscope.
By Stephanie Dutchen, Harvard Medical School | 05.14.2024

At a glance: 

Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for...

Image of many bubbles that appear to be multicolored against a dark background.
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.14.2024

Photo by Kind and Curious from Unsplash

When Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published the results of its gene therapy...