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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...

Portrait of Linnaeus
By Alan Goodman, Discover | 06.25.2020

Carl Linnaeus, who defined four varieties of humans in the 18th century
Portrait by Alexander Roslin; cropped photo by Nationalmuseum, Sweden

A friend...

Clamps adjusting DNA
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.25.2020

A suite of experiments that use the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to modify human embryos have revealed how the process can...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 06.23.2020

Many people, finding themselves at the end of their reproductive journey, decide to donate their extra embryos "to science." We...

Sickle cell anemia, showing blood vessel with normal and deformated crescent
By Rob Stein , NPR | 06.23.2020

Like millions of other Americans, Victoria Gray has been sheltering at home with her children as the U.S. struggles through...

Seal of California
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly [cites CGS and Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.22.2020

A $5.5 billion stem cell bond measure qualified this afternoon for the November ballot, but the campaign to win voter...

Stem Cell Research
By Brent Schrotenboer, USA Today | 06.22.2020

In a message posted on Facebook in early May, a startup company in San Diego tried to sell a big...

The Mighty Mosquito
By Natalie Kofler and Jennifer Kuzma , Boston Globe | 06.22.2020

While the attention of the American public has rightfully been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, its associated racial disparities, and...

X chromosome against the background of DNA
By Robin McKie , The Guardian | 06.21.2020

Twenty years ago this week, an international group of scientists announced it had put together the first genetic blueprint of...