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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 Rebecca Carballo , The New York Times | 12.04.2023

Hackers, using old passwords from customers of the genetic testing company 23andMe, were able to gain access to personal information...

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By Pete Shanks, The Progressive Magazine | 12.04.2023

Five years ago, on November 25, 2018, the world learned that a rogue Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had created the...

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By Jimi Olaghere, MIT Technology Review | 12.04.2023

On a picturesque fall day a few years ago, I opened the mailbox and took out an envelope as thick...

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By Emily Bazelon, The New York Times | 12.03.2023

A few years ago, when he was in his early 30s, Tyler Levy Sniff took a home DNA test he...

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By Matthew Gault, VICE | 12.01.2023

The Pentagon is looking toward a future where the U.S. deploys “super soldiers” directly inspired by Captain America and Iron...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.01.2023

That’s a real nice CRISPR cure you have there. It would be a pity if anything happened to it. 

Okay...

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By Rob Stein, Regina G. Barber, Berly McCoy, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.29.2023

In which we meet the pioneers of one of the most exciting — and controversial — fields of biomedical research: ...

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By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.27.2023

When Victoria Gray was still a baby, she started howling so inconsolably during a bath that she was rushed to...