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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...

Donald Trump
By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and...

gene therapy graphic
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.22.2025

On May 26, Tracy Atteberry checked in to the hospital at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The...

gene editing graphic
By Charmayne Allison, ABC News | 09.21.2025

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists.

He had...

a graphic showing certain genes acceptable and others not
By Auriane Polge, Science & Vie [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.19.2025

L’idée de pouvoir choisir certaines caractéristiques de son futur enfant a longtemps relevé de la science-fiction ou du débat éthique...

three babies with arrows designating some as higher up than others
By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you. 

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when...

Gelsinger
By Tia Ghose, Live Science | 09.16.2025

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy died. His death led...

fish drawing
By Peter de Kruijff, ABC News | 09.16.2025

Do you wonder where your meat comes from? Maybe it is organic, wild harvested, or farmed.

Or perhaps it was...

IVF graphic interrupted partway
By Jackie Davalos, Bloomberg | 09.15.2025

Kindbody, one of the largest fertility companies in the US, sought to disrupt egg freezing and IVF by combining spa...