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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...

3 early human embryos in grayscale
By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 03.21.2022

Photo by ZEISS Microscopy on Flickr

A California company says it can decipher almost all the DNA code of a...

IVF with the cells in the embryo in the shape of a question mark
By Josephine Johnston & Lucas J. Matthews , Nature | 03.21.2022

In fertility medicine, preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) has been developed for two purposes: first, to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF)...

He Juankui at the second international summit on human genome editing
By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.21.2022

Biophysicist He Jiankui, having served a 3-year sentence for creating the world’s first genetically engineered babies, may be released from...

He Jiankui taking questions in 2018
By Echo Xie, South China Morning Post | 03.20.2022

Chinese bioethicists are looking at the issues around caring for the world’s first gene-edited babies, and say more needs to...

A destroyed apartment block
By Lizzie Cernik and Anastasiia Levchenko, Refinery29 | 03.16.2022

Kharkiv, Ukraine: 13 March, 2022
Photo by Fotoreserg

The day before war broke out in Ukraine, 33-year-old Tanya [...

a strand of DNA has one side taken out by someone with an editing tool
By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 03.15.2022

As Intellia recently unveiled its latest promising data around one in a series of potentially game-changing gene therapies, the FDA...

By Press Release, Juvenile Law Center | 03.15.2022

Philadelphia, PA (March 15, 2022) – Today, Juvenile Law Center, the nation’s first public interest law firm for children's rights...

Africa on a globe
By ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer et al., Nature | 03.15.2022

Image by James Wiseman on Unsplash

Sleeper fish (Bostrychus africanus) are a staple food in West Africa. Harvesting...