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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 Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 08.03.2011

In a slim new volume, Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (Routledge, 2011),...

By Sunita Puri, Slate | 08.02.2011

"The first thing she said to me was, 'I know it's a girl, and I need your help to get...

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 07.31.2011

Federal examiners have rejected patents for genetic screening tests because the applicants did not explore their effectiveness for different races...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 07.29.2011

In a closely watched case, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that genes can be patented, overturning a lower...

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 07.28.2011

The federal government can continue to fund embryonic stem cell research, a U.S. district judge ruled Wednesday.

The decision from...
By Carl Elliott, New York Times | 07.28.2011

LAST month, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a scathing reassessment of a 12-year-old research study of Neurontin, a seizure...

By Mara Hvistendahl, Foreign Policy | 07.26.2011

For nearly two decades, anti-abortion activists have been at work in a disingenuous game, using the stark reduction of women...

By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 07.21.2011
Scientific experiments that insert human genes or cells into animals need new rules to ensure they are ethically acceptable and...