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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...

eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 06.08.2021

I've written a fair amount about egg donation over the years and have interviewed donors who travelled places to do...

pipette and petrie dish under a microscope lens
By Sheetal Soni and Françoise Baylis, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 06.07.2021

Five  years ago, independent research teams in the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in cultivating human embryos in...

By Council of Europe, Press Statement | 06.04.2021

At its 18th plenary meeting (1-4 June 2021), the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe adopted the following...

a sequence of DNA base pair letters
By Sara Reardon, Nature | 06.04.2021

When the sequencing of the human genome was announced two decades ago by the Human Genome Project and biotech firm...

Cover of journal
By Camisha Russell, Reproductive Biomedicine & Society | 06.02.2021

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The most recent Black Lives Matter moment provides an important opportunity for consideration of the interlocking social and political...

A person in a white lab coat pipettes liquid into test tubes
By Robert Klitzman, Bioethics.net | 06.02.2021

On September 5, 2020, the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, established by the U.S...

a test tube a strand of dna and people all together on a blue background
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 06.01.2021

Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he...

Blue DNA strand
By Matthew Herper, STAT | 06.01.2021

An international team of scientists says it has sequenced and assembled the entirety of the human genome, including parts that...