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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 hands holding out a large plate of salad.
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 02.20.2018

DNA testing won’t guide dieters to the weight-loss regimen most likely to work for them, scientists reported on Tuesday. Despite...

Three small babies in their hospital beds with a nurse taking care of one of them.
By Daniel Hurst , The Guardian | 02.20.2018

A wealthy Japanese man at the centre of a “baby factory” scandal in Thailand has won sole parental rights to...

Wooden gavel
By Associated Press, Omaha World-Herald | 02.18.2018

DES MOINES (AP) — The birth mother of an 18-month-old girl who agreed to be paid as a surrogate to...

Basketball player, Stephen Curry, shooting
By Thomas H. Murray, The Daily Beast | 02.18.2018

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s fundamental purpose is preserving “the spirit of sport.” In its official Code, WADA describes that spirit...

Male and Female symbol
By Rebecca Gale, Refinery29 [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.16.2018
It was 2011 and Kathryn Taylor was ready to get pregnant — with a boy. “I wanted a boy first...
Three x-ray brain scans.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 02.15.2018

After 25 years, scientists are starting to make progress against the devastating illness.

For 15 years, Michelle Dardengo watched helplessly...

Picture of DNA
By Marcy Darnovsky, Leah Lowthorp, and Katie Hasson, OpenGlobalRights | 02.15.2018

What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...

An undifferentiated cell being differentiated into different cells. A switch is used to symbolize the changes made that allow the cell to differentiate differently.
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.14.2018

California is counting its first royalties from a 13-year-old effort to develop stem cell cures and has declared that it...