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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 of a scientist pulling out a particular part of a strand of DNA
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register | 11.10.2023

With danger comes some interesting prospects in the field of gene therapy and genome editing, Dr. Brett Salkeld believes.

It’s...

graphic a human head with data points on top of them
By Emile P. Torres, Truthdig | 11.09.2023

It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that...

poctures of Holocaust victims
By Herwig Czech et al. , The Lancet | 11.08.2023

Executive Summary

The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...

a sickle cell
By Ned Pagliarulo and Shaun Lucas, BioPharma Dive | 11.08.2023

For most people, red blood cells travel smoothly through the body. Round and flexible, they flow through arteries and veins...

vials of blood
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.08.2023

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she...

map of california
By Garnet Henderson, Rewire News Group | 11.06.2023

“We go in for excessive bleeding and come out missing body parts! How does that make sense?”

For more than...

human brain connected to electrical circuits
By Jonathan Shaffer, Arsenii Alenichev, and Marlyn C. Faure, BMJ Global Health | 11.03.2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, ‘magic bullet’ technical...

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By Derrick Gingery, Pink Sheet | 11.01.2023

Some worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks said sponsors...