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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 05.13.2011
In an unexpected setback to efforts to harness a promising new type of stem cell to treat diseases, researchers reported...
By Michael Smith, Bloomberg Markets Magazine | 05.11.2011
Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed...
By Kate Kelland, Reuters | 05.11.2011
A study of more than 400,000 IVF cycles has found that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from...
By Rebecca Martin, The Local | 05.10.2011
"We can’t recognise a DNA-test because the question isn’t really if the man is the boy’s biological father, but if...
By Eliza Barclay, NPR Blog | 05.09.2011
For all the fanfare around personalized medicine, the idea has been fairly slow to take off.

Boosters have said if...
By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 05.09.2011
A young man followed a woman into a coffee shop as she prepared to open for business at 6 a.m...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.08.2011

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 05.06.2011
The Polish port city of Gdansk is famous for its shipyards. Hungary's fifth largest city, Pecs, is known for its...