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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 David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.10.2019

Backers of a California ballot initiative to provide $5.5 billion more for the state's cash-strapped stem cell agency say they...

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By Ankita Rao, VICE | 09.09.2019

Content Warning: This story contains sensitive details about reproductive violence.

S.A.T.* wanted her daughter in the room.

It was the...

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By William Wan and Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post | 09.06.2019

Responding to ubiquitous online marketing by stem cell clinics selling unapproved treatments for everything from achy joints to Alzheimer’s, Google...

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By Belinda Martineau, Biotech Salon | 09.06.2019

UC Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam described the experience of learning that the “poster animals for the gene-editing revolution” do...

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By Mohsen Abdelmoumen, American Herald Tribune | 09.05.2019

In your book Biotech Juggernaut, Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience co-authored with Tina Stevens, you draw attention...

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By Philip Ball, Prospect | 09.04.2019

Some people once felt that the reason to look for a “gay gene” was so that it could be eliminated...

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By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.04.2019

China’s first duplicate cat marks the country’s emergence in gene research and its entry in a potentially lucrative and unregulated...

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By Andrew Solomon, The New York Times | 09.02.2019

The eugenic movement spearheaded by Francis Galton in England in the late Victorian period reached a culmination in the view...