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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...

Pipet in a test tube
By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.26.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin...

clip art of helix and pencil
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2018

When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global...

A close-up on a hand with a pen writing on pieces of paper on a desk.
By Marcy Darnovsky, Boston Review | 11.19.2018

In her essay, Merve Emre declares that “all reproduction . . . is assisted.” Few feminists of any wave or...

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By Jacob Ward, The New York Times Magazine | 11.16.2018

In 1999, a trio of economists emerged from a conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, squinting without sunglasses...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Matthew Weaver, The Guardian | 11.12.2018

IVF clinics have been putting profits before patient care by charging clients for expensive treatment add-ons that have no proven...

Mosquito on skin
By Briefing, The Economist | 11.08.2018

“I think I got it,” says Alekos Simoni with a grin, returning an electronic fly zapper called “The Executioner” to...

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By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 11.06.2018

Millions of amateur genealogists assembling family trees on Ancestry.com probably figure they’re just finding lost relatives and assessing their genetic...

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By Yeyang Su, Impact Ethics [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.03.2018

At the end of this month, the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing will be held in Hong Kong...