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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

a neon sign in the shape of a person's side profile and brain. The profile is red and the brain is yellow. This is on an unlit brown background.
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 03.30.2023

CHICAGO — When she entered the field of Alzheimer’s research a quarter century ago, Lisa Barnes was deeply disappointed to...

A DNA test strip
By Noura Abul-Husn, STAT | 03.29.2023

Twenty years ago, virtually all people seeking genetic testing were individuals diagnosed with diseases possibly linked to their genetic makeup...

the silhouettes of three people. Two are red and are on either side. A pink person is slightly higher than the rest with an arrow pointing up and a star at the top.
By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, Literary Hub | 03.27.2023

When the gentleman-​scholar Francis Galton inspected his fellow men of Victorian Britain, he found them wanting: “We want abler commanders...

a person with gloves in a lab setting holding a test tube.
By Lisa Rosenbaum, New England Journal of Medicine | 03.23.2023

Ethan Weiss: I think it became incredibly clear to me during Covid when . . . I don’t know...

a blue DNA double helix with various lines of genetic code in the background.
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 03.23.2023

THE 2018 ARREST of Joseph James DeAngelo, infamously known as the Golden State Killer, put genetic genealogy on the map...

a photo of the Francis Crick Institute
By Françoise Baylis, Impact Ethics | 03.22.2023

photo by Miguel Descart licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

In early March, I was in London, England for the Third...

A pencil with genetic code replacing the wooden shaft of the pencil
By Editorial, The Lancet | 03.18.2023

In 2018, during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, Jiankui He shocked the world by...

IVF with the cells in the embryo in the shape of a question mark
By Natasha Mitchell, ABC [feat. CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies...