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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 Rong-Gong Lin II and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times | 06.02.2011
The medical ethics controversy that erupted when Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets two years ago took a decisive turn...
By Rich Remsberg, NPR | 06.01.2011
The shadow selves of American history often don't leave much of a photographic record, but sometimes there are just a...
By Suthiwit Chayutworakan, Bangkok Post | 05.31.2011
Thailand repatriated five pregnant Vietnamese women and five babies yesterday after freeing them from a Taiwanese gang which forced them...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 05.31.2011
This story is part of an occasional series, "Making Babies: 21st Century Families."

As more women postpone motherhood into...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.29.2011

Last week, Chicago Tribune reporter Monica Eng wrote about the latest chapter in the debate over genetically modified foods: their...

By Will Guzzardi, Washington Post | 05.26.2011
If Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs House Bill 3238, recently sent to his desk by the state legislature, it will...
By CBC News, CBC News [Canada] | 05.25.2011

Canada's civil liberties watchdog is calling on investigators in the Sonia Varaschin murder investigation to "immediately stop" voluntary DNA sampling...

By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.25.2011

Modern bioethics is grounded in four basic principles: respect for persons (i.e. autonomy), beneficence, nonmalificence and justice. In a recent...