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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...

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By Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis and Dmytro Drabyk , Politico [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.23.2023

KYIV, Ukraine  When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...

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By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 07.20.2023

Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding high...

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By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech | 07.19.2023

For many people, when they hear China and genetic engineering in the same sentence, it is often synonymous with scandal...

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By Rachel Lu, The Nation | 07.19.2023

"[formerly] Mead Memorial Chapel at Middlebury College, Vermont" by Niranjan Arminius is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

In October...

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By Molly Sprayregen, LGBTQ Nation | 07.17.2023

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In conjunction with its crackdown...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.17.2023

Photo by Andrew Liu on Unsplash

The baby baboon is wearing a mesh gown and appears to be sitting upright...

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By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 07.16.2023

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets...