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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...

By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun | 02.15.2012
While adoptive children have the right to information about their birth parents and children of sperm donors have no rights...
By Marianne Brown, The Guardian [UK] | 02.14.2012
When Hai overheard her mother-in-law telling her husband to have an extramarital affair so he could have a son, she...
By Marianne Brown, The Guardian [UK] | 02.14.2012
When Hai overheard her mother-in-law telling her husband to have an extramarital affair so he could have a son, she...
By Jonathan Freedland, The Telegraph [UK] | 02.12.2012
At first glance, it is an utterly benign and heart-warming story, a tale of child-rescue and salvation, of friendship across...
By Jonathan Freedland, The Telegraph [UK] | 02.12.2012
At first glance, it is an utterly benign and heart-warming story, a tale of child-rescue and salvation, of friendship across...
By Anuj Chopra, Foreign Policy | 02.10.2012
KOLHAPUR, India — Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible...
By Anuj Chopra, Foreign Policy | 02.10.2012
KOLHAPUR, India — Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible...
By BBC, BBC | 02.09.2012

IVF clinics have been told that no more than 10% of births should be twins or triplets by regulators.

The...