News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

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

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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

U.S. States

Detectives Just Used DNA To Solve A 1956 Double Homicide. They May Have Made History

By Sharon Pruitt-Young, NPR | 06.12.2021

It was only three days into 1956 when three boys from Montana, out for a hike on a normal January...

Genomics

Five fertility clinic patients awarded $15m after failure of freezing tank

By Edward Helmore, The Guardian | 06.12.2021

Five patients of a California fertility center have been awarded a total of $15m after a freezing tank failed, rendering...

U.S. Federal

Jury awards $15 million in landmark case over embryos, eggs destroyed in fertility clinic tank failure

By Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post | 06.11.2021

The devastating news landed in the inboxes of the fertility clinic patients early one morning in March 2018.

A tank...

U.S. Federal

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, here's what you need to know

By Annabelle Spranklen, Glamour | 06.10.2021

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, says regulator

Fertility clinics have been warned that they...

Policies

Are gene-editing technologies traditional? Not if they are linked to intellectual rights

By Kathleen Garnett, A Bigger Conversation | 06.09.2021

As we await the report on the UK government’s public consultation on ‘The Regulation of Genetic Technologies’ it is a...

Synthetic Biology

20 years after the human genome was first sequenced, dangerous gene myths abound

By Philip Ball, The Guardian | 06.09.2021

Twenty years ago, the science journal Nature published the first draft of the human genome: the sequence of chemical “letters”...

Society

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Expanding Biolab Complex in Berkeley Has Residents Worried

By Sharon Lerner, Lee Fang, The Intercept [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.09.2021

The Bayer Corporation has made it clear that the creation of a biological research facility on its waterfront property in Berkeley, California, will...

Bioethics

Unproven stem cell interventions: A global public health problem requiring global deliberation

By Zubin Master, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, and Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, Stem Cell Reports | 06.08.2021

The unproven stem cell intervention (SCI) industry is a global health problem. Despite efforts of some nations, the industry continues...

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