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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...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.26.2020

The first president of the California stem cell agency, Zach Hall, says that he would vote against the $5.5...

Osagie K. Obasogie
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | 10.26.2020

In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to...

Stem cell injection
By Pete Shanks, Capitol Weekly | 10.26.2020

At a time of budget crisis, Proposition 14 commits California to spending $5 billion (plus interest) that we don’t have...

California polling station
By Katarina Zimmer, The Scientist | 10.24.2020

Over the course of its 16-year existence, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Oakland has helped transform its state...

By Julia Creet, The Conversation | 10.22.2020

On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence...

Stem cell under microscope
By Rachel Bluth, California Healthline [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.21.2020

SACRAMENTO — In an election year dominated by a chaotic presidential race and splashy statewide ballot initiative campaigns, Californians are...

Map of the world showing countries that prohibit heritable human genome editing in red
By Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 10.20.2020

Abstract

Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...

Indian woman with baby at doctor
By Gauri Agarwal, The Times of India | 10.19.2020

The Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in September this year. It has been a...