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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...

By Sarah Franklin, Nature | 10.29.2019

In the autumn of 1869, Charles Darwin was hard at work revising the fifth edition of On The Origin of...

Rainbow double helix
By Emily Maxmen, Nature | 10.29.2019

Joseph Vitti’s stomach turned when he opened a link an acquaintance had sent him. It took him to an app...

masked researcher handles genetic material in a pipette
By Andy Heil, Radio Free Europe | 10.26.2019

Moscow biologist and DNA specialist Denis Rebrikov has spent much of the past year kicking a scientific and ethical hornet's...

Early stage human embryo under a microscope
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 10.24.2019

Two years ago, news headlines began to appear about a development that made many human geneticists uneasy. A U.S. company...

Double helix severed in two places
By Jon Cohen, Science | 10.21.2019

CRISPR, an extraordinarily powerful genome-editing tool invented in 2012, can still be clumsy. It sometimes changes genes it shouldn’t, and...

needle penetrating a cluster of blue cells
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 10.18.2019

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has started gene editing in eggs donated by women who can hear to learn how to...

Photo of the Russian flag and a blue sky with clouds
By Olga Dobrovidova, STAT | 10.16.2019

MOSCOW — Russian health officials are playing down international concerns that a Moscow researcher plans to create gene-edited babies any...

World map with a blue arrow indicating a market increase
By Alison Motluk, Hey Reprotech! | 10.15.2019

Sometimes when I'm bored, I find myself Googling things like "value of global fertility services market 2019." 

The estimates that...