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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...

microscopic image of human embryonic stem cells
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 03.20.2018

Dieter Egli was just about to start graduate school in 1998 when researchers first worked out how to derive human...

Tubes of human blood
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.19.2018

This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever...

Chromosome being unwound
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 03.15.2018

DNA is the code of life, and so advances that allow us to edit that code have unlocked vast potential...

A photo showing a white man, seated on a couch, holding a newborn in his arms.
By Amy Packham, Huffington Post | 03.14.2018

Male infertility is the most common reason couples in the UK have IVF treatment, official UK data has revealed. 

The most...

Josiah Zayner
By Alex Lash, Xconomy [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2018

Gene editing has arrived. Of the various forms of the technology, CRISPR-Cas9 is the easiest to use, and it’s already...

A gavel rests on a circular wooden stand.
By Amy Goldstein and Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 03.12.2018

An Ohio couple who lost both their frozen embryos when a fertility clinic's storage tank overheated last week are the...

Three cows grazing in grass
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.12.2018

The home page of the Minnesota biotech company Recombinetics shouts “The Gene Editing Revolution Is Here.” 

Or it would be, if only...

Scientist pipetting into plate
By Mary Warnock, The Guardian | 03.11.2018

The Royal Society has recently published the results of an extensive survey of the attitudes of the general public to...