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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 AFP, France24 | 08.28.2023

Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction...

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By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.22.2023

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...

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By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | 08.18.2023

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which...

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By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 08.18.2023

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids?  The press alert...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 08.17.2023

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on...

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By Anna Molas, The Conversation | 08.17.2023

Spain performs more than half of all egg donation treatments across Europe. The country is the largest provider of...

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By Arthur Caplan and Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 08.17.2023

The technology associated with assisted reproduction has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Planned oocyte and sperm freezing, posthumous...

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By Deena Beasley, Reuters | 08.16.2023

LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 12 story has been corrected to state that ICER's final analysis was...