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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...

microscopes in lab
By Janet D. Stemwedel , The Scientific American | 05.24.2022

 Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash

The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened...

a person holding a white protest sign that says "disarm mass killer ban assault weapons" this is at a protest
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.23.2022

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The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and...

Grayscale graphic of Eugenics tree
By Benedict Ipgrave, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Marcy Darnovsky, Subhadra Das, Charlene Galarneau, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Nora Ellen Groce, Tony Platt, Milton Reynolds, Marius Turda, Robert A Wilson, The Lancet | 05.21.2022

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...

Hundred dollar bills
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 05.20.2022

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

The directors of the $12 billion California stem cell agency are looking for a...

Logo of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.20.2022

The fertility watchdog is considering whether to recommend scrapping anonymity for future sperm and egg donors as part of an...

Silhouettes of 4 people layered on the left, chunk of genetic code in between 2 DNA helices overlapping a graphic of Earth
By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.20.2022

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Earlier this year, the police in Eugene, Ore., said they had identified...

Doctor speaking to pregnant woman in exam room
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 05.20.2022

Pregnancy, in this age of modern medicine, comes with a series of routinely recommended prenatal tests: At 11 weeks, a...

May centered on Buffalo, NY
By Majua Estevez and Raquel Reichard, Refinery29 | 05.19.2022

Several months before Payton S. Gendron carried out a racist mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, which...