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

Police May Not Need a Warrant to Rummage Through Your Trash, But Warrantless Collection of DNA Is Unconstitutional

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 03.11.2020

This week, we filed an amicus brief in a South Dakota case arguing that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police...

Policies

Students' Genes Cannot Accurately Predict Educational Achievement

By University of Bristol, Phys Org | 03.11.2020

Pupils' genetic data do not predict their educational outcomes with sufficient accuracy and shouldn't be used to design a genetically...

Genomics

How Tech Will Change Fertility

By Claire Tomkins, Forbes | 03.09.2020

In the U.S., birthrates have dipped to an all-time low of 1.73 births per mother.

More than anything, this is...

Assisted Reproduction

Can We Bring Back Mammoths From Extinction? Probably Not — Here’s Why

By Riley Black, Discover | 03.09.2020

The last mammoths were in trouble. Isolated on Wrangel Island, a spit of land off the coast of Siberia, the...

Genomics

close-up photo of a researcher wearing a mask

Want to Do Better Science? Admit You’re Not Objective

By Angela Saini, Nature | 03.09.2020

One of the world’s leading universities — University College London (UCL) — has completed an inquiry into its support for...

Society

Curing HIV and sickle cell falls short if the most vulnerable populations are left out

By Francis S Collins, Fortune | 03.08.2020

The year was 1984. I was finishing my medical genetics training at Yale, working on the molecular genetics of disorders...

Society

Doctors Try 1st CRISPR Editing in the Body for Blindness

By The Associated Press, The New York Times | 03.04.2020

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier...

Human Genetic Modification

You Can Learn a Lot About Yourself From a DNA Test. Here's What Your Genes Cannot Tell You

By Libby Copeland, TIME | 03.02.2020

“Have you found an article of clothing with a suspicious stain?” asks the website of one Florida-based company called All...

Bioethics