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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 Jim Yardley, The New York Times | 05.24.2011
India’s increasing wealth and improving literacy are apparently contributing to a national crisis of “missing girls,” with the number of...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 05.20.2011
California Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Gov. Jerry Brown today nominated Jonathan Thomas to succeed Robert Klein as chairman of the...
By Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail | 05.19.2011
People who might never have known who their biological mother or father was will have that opportunity now that a...
By BBC, BBC News | 05.19.2011

Laws in the UK are designed to try to prevent such arrangements, but Mr Justice Hedley said his paramount concern...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 05.18.2011
In an era of helicopter parents eager to exploit every competitive edge for their children, at least two companies have...
By Lewis Page, The Register | 05.18.2011
The Supreme Court has ruled that guidance on the running of the national DNA database – which states that all...
By Vincent Y. Chao and Shelley Huang, Taipei Times | 05.17.2011
Estimates that thousands of female fetuses are aborted each year in Taiwan have led to calls for health agencies to...
By Robin Yapp, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.16.2011
Roger Abdelmassih is on the run from police after being convicted of sexually assaulting or raping 39 female patients at...