News

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...

By Catherine Lacey, The Atlantic | 04.04.2012

A few years ago, a woman I've never met had my child, but that's not exactly true; she had our...

By Jane Hughes, BBC News | 04.04.2012
The UK fertility regulator is seeking to reduce the taboo around egg and sperm donation.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
By Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 04.03.2012

When Richmond was selected as the site for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's huge second campus in January, city officials and...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 04.02.2012
If every aspect of a person’s DNA is known, would it be possible to predict the diseases in that person’s...
By Lee Howard, The Day | 04.01.2012
Former Pfizer Inc. molecular biologist Becky McClain calls herself a "reluctant activist" now that she has become a national spokeswoman...
By Paul Peachey, The Independent | 03.31.2012
The major blunder that sent detectives on the Gareth Williams inquiry down a blind alley for more than a year...
By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 03.30.2012

 It has triggered a boom in risky multiple births, created a generation of children with anonymous sperm-donor parents and spawned...

By Angela Saini, Science | 03.29.2012
The UK Biobank, a repository containing samples and health data from half a million people, is finally open for business...