Before she became pregnant, Darnisha Wiley-Scott had been going door-to-door on the west side of Fresno surveying women about pregnancy and childbirth as part of a community project and study. “Come to find out that African-American women are more likely to have premature babies than any other ethnicity in Fresno....
Valley's Own Tiny Baby Remains an 'Amazing Story'
Imagine a baby born only 24 weeks into his mother's normal 40-week pregnancy, weighing only 12.7 ounces. That's the equivalent of a can of soda. Tyson Perez was delivered by cesarean section in August 2011 at St. Agnes Medical Center and rushed to Valley Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit....
China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies
HONG KONG — China's government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared that it's still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited...
Gene-Edited Baby Claim by Chinese Scientist Sparks Outrage
HONG KONG — Scientists and bioethics experts reacted with shock, anger and alarm Monday to a Chinese researcher's claim that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies. He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology of China said he altered the DNA of twin girls born earlier this month...