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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...

two people editing parts of DNA
By Alice Park, Time | 06.23.2023

For genetic conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, there is little doctors can do to slow or treat the condition other...

5 eggs and what seems to be a needle
By Susan Burton, The New York Times and Serial Productions | 06.22.2023

The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full...

3 babies in 3 different shades of green and they are being compared and ranked against each other
By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 06.22.2023

Campaigners in Japan have reacted angrily to a government report revealing that children as young as nine were among thousands...

a hand holding a pregnancy test with many other pregnancy tests surrounding it
By Tracy Lowe, Parentology [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 06.21.2023

If you could choose the healthiest embryo to carry so that your future child could avoid deadly diseases, would you...

scientist injecting with syringe into egg with sperm inside it - with 3 test tubes in the foreground
By Stuart Newman and Tina Stevens, Independent Science News | 06.19.2023

Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of producing laboratory-crafted human children is proceeding rapidly...

a clump of 6 cells within a circular sac-like structure - all in orange
By Philip Ball, Nature | 06.16.2023

Two teams of scientists have announced that they have grown embryo-like structures, made entirely from human stem cells, that are...

a face with lines of yellow running thru it
By Émile P. Torres, Truthdig | 06.15.2023

TESCREAL—pronounced “tess-cree-all.” It’s a strange word that you may have seen pop up over the past few months. The renowned...

a building with a sign in front in white lettering on a blue background saying FDA
By Anna Clark, ProPublica | 06.14.2023

After decades of intense debate and stalled legislation, the Food and Drug Administration has taken a critical step in overseeing...