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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 tractor amongst rows of crops
By GMWatch Contributors, GMWatch | 11.21.2023

Open letter to UK's FSA is published

A group of experts representing business, farming, certification, academia, science and civil society...

strands of DNA being separated
By Carissa Wong, Nature | 11.16.2023

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool as a...

DNA scissors
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.16.2023

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.

The one-time therapy, which...

DNA strand
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.14.2023

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can...

sperm around an egg in a beaker
By Alexis Heng, UCA News | 11.13.2023

In recent years, Singapore has increasingly leveraged new reproductive technologies to overcome the country's rapidly aging demographics and dismal fertility...

model of a heart
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 11.12.2023

A technique for precisely rewriting the genetic code directly in the body has slashed “bad” cholesterol levels—possibly for life—in three...

a monkey
By Helen Floersh, Fierce Biotech | 11.10.2023

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent...

a lecture hall
By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 11.10.2023

All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to...