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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...

Public debate
By Marcy Darnovsky, ISSUES in Science and Technology | 06.05.2019

As the debate about heritable genome editing unfolds, divergent perspectives are coming more clearly into view. Those who see it...

U.S. Supreme Court
By Kelly Servick, Science | 06.04.2019

A congressional proposal that would overturn a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that barred the patenting of human genes and...

Ban On Genetically Modified Babies
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio [cites CGS Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.04.2019

A congressional committee voted Tuesday to continue a federal ban on creating genetically modified babies in the United States.

The...

Baby having its heartbeat checked by a doctor
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio | 06.03.2019

There are new concerns about the world's first genetically modified babies.

It appears that the genetic variation a Chinese scientist...

Woman sitting with her back to the camera
By Rachel Adams, The Conversation | 05.29.2019

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these...

Close-up image of the U.S. Congress
By Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 05.29.2019

Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...

He Jiankui speaks during the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Nov. 28, 2018.
By Sharon Begley, STAT News | 05.28.2019

The condemnation of the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genome-edited babies last year was far from universal: A...

Embryo selection for IVF
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.24.2019

Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a...