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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...

DNA sequencing lab
By Ian Sample, The Guardian [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.03.2020

Powerful genome editing procedures that could prevent parents from passing on heritable diseases to their children are far from ready...

Salmon filet
By GM Watch Staff, GM Watch | 09.02.2020

"People across the country have made it clear that they don’t want to eat genetically engineered salmon, and food retailers...

Coronavirus
By Shibani Mahtani and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, Washington Post | 09.01.2020

HONG KONG — Borrowing from mainland China's pandemic playbook, Hong Kong officials began a drive Tuesday to mass-test residents...

Covid testing swabs
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 09.01.2020

In the past few weeks, public-health experts were rightfully outraged at moves by the US Centers for Disease Control and...

Man signing documents
By George Thomas, The Government Center Gazette [cites CGS] | 09.01.2020

SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) announced today that his measure, Senate Bill 980 (SB 980)  passed the California...

Person on scale
By Carey Goldberg, WBUR | 08.27.2020

Here's a sci-fi fantasy spurred by some very real — but early — new research published this week:

Imagine the...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.25.2020

President Trump’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic has been rooted from the start in grand goals and grander ambitions, all...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 08.25.2020

It's possible that you've never been sent one of these ads. I haven't. But if you're a young woman, aged...