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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...

sickle cell in test tube
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post [cites CGS’ Pete Shanks ] | 12.08.2023

The first medicine based on gene editing, a one-time therapy for sickle cell disease, was just approved in the...

sickle cells
By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times | 12.08.2023

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought...

embryos on blue background
By Carey Goldberg, The Boston Globe | 12.07.2023

Say you’re about to start in vitro fertilization and your clinic offers you a futuristic new option: It can analyze...

gene therapy money
By Washington Post Staff, The Washington Post | 12.07.2023

The White House on Thursday announced its latest gambit to lower U.S. drug prices: a plan to step in and...

scales weighing fertility vs gene therapy
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 12.06.2023

As a teenager, Marie Tornyenu was always having to explain herself. If it wasn’t the chronic absences that had her...

front page of 1814 NEJM
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 12.06.2023

The New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s oldest continually published medical journal, publicly reckoned with its history and complicity...

graphic of multiple embryos
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 12.06.2023

Leading scientists are calling for a change in the law to help IVF patients donate unused embryos to biomedical research...

half a human head with circuits in the foreground
By Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill, The Financial Times | 12.05.2023

TRANSCRIPT

Madhumita Murgia: We’re going to start off today’s episode with somebody named Anders Sandberg.

Anders Sandberg: I’m senior research...