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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 Kim Severson, New York Times | 01.11.2012

ATLANTA — The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North...
By CBS NY, CBS New York | 01.11.2012

The state of New York is considering a dramatic expansion of its DNA collection. New Yorkers who find themselves under...

By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post | 01.10.2012
Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that...
By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post | 01.10.2012
Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that...
By Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.10.2012

After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the...
By Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.10.2012

After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the...
By Douglas Pet, Slate | 01.09.2012

The booming business in international surrogacy, whereby Westerners have begun hiring poor women in developing countries to carry their babies...

By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes | 01.08.2012
Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a...