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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 Victoria Turner, Synapse [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.08.2019

In 2018, the story broke of a Chinese researcher who had made real-life use of CRISPR to edit two human...

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By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.08.2019

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has reaffirmed his support for a moratorium on...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.08.2019

Anxious couples are approaching fertility doctors in the US with requests for a hotly debated new genetic test being called...

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By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 11.07.2019

Plans for the National Health Service to sequence the DNA of every baby born in the UK, starting with a...

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By Kelly Glass, Medium Elemental [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.06.2019

When Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos and her husband were trying to conceive with in vitro fertilization (IVF), they were presented with...

Human egg being penetrated by a needle for IVF
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 11.05.2019

By the time Sarah Chamberlin’s fertility doctor declared her genes “incompatible” with her husband’s and said the clash might be...

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By Kashmir Hill and Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 11.05.2019

For police officers around the country, the genetic profiles that 20 million people have uploaded to consumer DNA sites represent...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.30.2019

A private DNA ancestry database that’s been used by police to catch criminals is a security risk from which a...