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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...

Two 23andMe at-home DNA testing kits
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 04.16.2019

In 2010, Dr. Pamela Munster mailed her saliva to 23andMe, a relatively new DNA testing company, and later opted in...

Dorothy Roberts
By Mark Leviton, The Sun Magazine | 04.15.2019

Law, Africana-studies, and sociology professor Dorothy Roberts describes race as a “political category that has been disguised as a biological...

Photograph of Stephen Quake sitting
By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 04.14.2019

PALO ALTO, Calif. — “Success!” read the subject line of the email. The text, in imperfect English, began: “Good News...

Dollar bill with DNA in the middle
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 04.12.2019

THE UK BIOBANK is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of half...

A colorful image of a fertilized egg.
By Muri Assuncao, Daily News [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2019

Oh baby!

A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Editor, ReproTech Truths | 04.10.2019

In the last few years, ASRM has aggressively courted RESOLVE, once a purely grassroots group of women helping women get...

Woman looking and pointing at phone
By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post | 04.10.2019

Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to...

Black and white depiction of evolution, from primates to humans
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.10.2019

Human intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started millions of...