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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 Dita Faulkner, EmpowHER | 06.09.2011
Now this is a unique problem. In some areas, there are more boys being born than girls. For instance, as...
By Times of India, The Times of India | 06.08.2011

Under cultural pressure to have sons, some Indian immigrant women are using reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies in the...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 06.07.2011
For a state agency that aims to define the term "visionary," the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine — the stem...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Ms. Magazine Blog | 06.06.2011

As best as demographers can figure, the world is short about 160 million girls and women–equivalent to the entire female...

By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 06.05.2011
The days of "sex-selection shops" in India are numbered.

The Union health ministry on Saturday asked Medical Council of India...
By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 06.03.2011
The event, on Thursday night at the World Science Festival in Manhattan, was a panel discussion called “Cancer’s Last Stand...
By Peter Foster, The Telegraph [UK] | 06.02.2011
The 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname, "Zheng", confessed to his mother that he had sold the kidney after...
By Barry Stevens, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 06.02.2011
On May 19, 2011, a door opened that has long been closed in North America. The Supreme Court of British...