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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...

A close up model of how CRISPR is able to work
By Jia Jie Chen, BioSpace | 04.10.2023

 

Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...

A zoomed in shot of a virus cell
By David Willman and Joby Warrrick, The Washington Post | 04.10.2023

BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...

A zoomed in picture demonstrating the process of IVF
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 04.08.2023

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...

An old poster depicting a group of women with the caption "stop forced sterilization"
By Deborah Hastings, Inside Edition | 04.06.2023

In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color...

a macaque monkey with light brown fur facing the camera
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 04.06.2023

Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When...

A group of sperm cells moving toward an egg
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 04.05.2023

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 41-year-old Dutch musician, may have merely been doing a kind and generous act when he...

A vibrant rainbow is painted onto a road. Two feet wearing white shoes are situated at the bottom of the picture facing the rainbow
By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times | 04.04.2023

Photo by Carlos de Toro @carlosdetoro on Unsplash

MILAN — After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son...

a law textbook and a gavel on a grey background
By Zoe Beketova, Progress Educational Trust | 04.03.2023

The Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales have published proposals to reform UK surrogacy law.

Their joint report...