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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...

a strand of DNA
By Michael Eisenstein, Nature | 02.24.2020

Leslie Mitchell had no intention of doing a postdoc. After completing her PhD at the University of Ottawa, she had...

sperm swimming to an egg
By Karen Weingarten, Nursing Clio | 02.24.2020

In 1974, a Los Angeles Times staff writer interviewed Dr. Donald Adler, a Beverly Hills gynecologist who ran a sperm...

eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, UNDARK | 02.24.2020

In the summer of 2017, Julie Johnson saw a Facebook ad about egg donation. Somebody out there — an older...

tweezers removing a piece of DNA
By Ethan J. Weiss, STAT | 02.21.2020

I’m a doctor. I strive to fix things that are broken. Hearts, mostly. But my daughter Ruthie has forever changed...

NYBD police car door
By Edgar Sandoval, The New York Times | 02.20.2020

Two years ago, detectives offered a 12-year-old boy they had arrested a McDonald’s soda during questioning. When the boy left...

an elderly woman's hands
By Judith Graham, The New York Times | 02.20.2020

Do I know I’m at risk for developing dementia? You bet.

My father died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 72...

white baby crawling on a green background
By Dolli Player and Alicia Matsuura, The Daily Universe [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.18.2020

In the early 2000s, genome editing seemed like the answer to parents who carried latent genes that could result in...

human eggs
By Staff Reporter, BBC News | 02.17.2020

The fertility expert, Lord Robert Winston, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to discuss the campaign to relax the...