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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 Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.21.2011
A trans-Atlantic dispute has opened up between two camps of researchers pursuing a gene that could lead to drugs that...
By Liz Ford, The Guardian (UK) | 09.19.2011
Creating better opportunities for women and girls makes good economic sense and increases development prospects, according to the World Bank's...
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, Montreal Gazette | 09.19.2011
The era of designer babies may be closer than most people think, one of Canada’s leading figures in reproductive medicine...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 09.17.2011
Women inseminated with a donor's sperm used to be advised to tell no one. Go home, doctors said, make love...
By Richard Orange, Telegraph [UK] | 09.16.2011
Ole Schou, Cryos's director, said that there had been a surge in donations in recent years, allowing the facility to...
By Elizabeth Reis, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 09.15.2011

My college-age daughter can earn $50,000-$100,000 just for being smart, beautiful, tall, and a Harvard student.  Yes, going to Harvard...

By Ian Sample, Guardian | 09.14.2011
Life forms have been created that carry strands of genetic material designed and built from scratch in the lab, paving...
By Laura Donnelly, Telegraph [UK] | 09.11.2011
Medical staff should be instructed to "withhold information about the sex of the foetus" according to a draft resolution passed...