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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...

A group of Japanese 10 year olds sitting at there school desks.
By Norikazu Chiba, The Mainichi | 12.19.2018

TOKYO -- The Japanese Society for Hygiene, which was active in promoting eugenic policies under the now-defunct eugenic protection law...

United Nations logo in black.
By Marcia Frellick, Medscape [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 12.18.2018

The World Health Organization (WHO) is creating a global panel to study human gene editing and the scientific, legal, social...

researches removes DNA from a test tube.
By Chronicle Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.14.2018

California is being sued over its DNA collection practices, and the only thing that’s surprising is how long it took...

Test tube pipette held in the hand of a scientist.
By Jing-Bao Nie, Neil Pickering, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 12.13.2018

When the world’s first research on editing the genes of human embryos by Chinese scientists  was published in an international...

Pregnant woman holding her belly.
By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.13.2018

Three of the most influential scientific organizations in the world are calling for an urgent international effort to prevent scientists...

There is a chalk drawing of a strong man behind a smaller person wearing a hood and looking down.
By Ellen Wright Clayton, Nature | 12.12.2018

The year is 2030. Gene therapy to insert the DNA sequence for dystrophin has been approved by regulators and is...

A string of DNA.
By David Cyranoski, Scientific American | 12.12.2018

Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s extraordinary claim two weeks ago that he had helped to make the first babies—twin girls—with edited...

New born being held in doctor's hands.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.11.2018

It could have been anyone. It was so easy. But it was him. Junjiu Huang.

In 2015, Huang, a stem-cell...