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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...

ivf graphic
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 08.19.2025

Human eggs are incredibly rare cells. The ovary typically produces only 400 mature eggs across a woman’s life. But biologists...

vaccine photo
By Editors, Nature | 08.15.2025

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic1 should be feted...

embryo graphic
By Molly Gray, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 08.13.2025

Human embryo at about 8 weeks
by Anatomist90, CC3.0

With debate growing around whether the “14-day rule” on human...

a green and yellow graphic with three babies increasing across the screen
By Zusha Elinson, The Wall Street Journal | 08.12.2025

BERKELEY, Calif.—Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying...

An early embryo
By Nicky Hudson, The Conversation | 08.12.2025

A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had...

British Parliament photo
By Harry Hunter, PET BioNews | 08.11.2025

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has announced plans to publish a POSTnote and called for submissions on surrogacy...

UK and US flags
By Natalie Gamble, PET BioNews | 08.11.2025

UK and US flags, by Tvabutzku1234, CC0 1.0

President Trump has signed an Executive Order to end birthright citizenship...

Protesting Against Monsanto and GMOs
By Staff, GMWatch | 08.10.2025

Protesting Against Monsanto and GMOs
by William Murphy, CC2.0

GMWatch has published a series of interviews with the late scientist Dr...