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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...

Art exhibition featuring a plastic human model, and a colorful DNA model in the background
By Corin Faife, How We Get To Next [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.26.2017

Editing the human genome has huge potential for improving health — for those who can afford it

Debojyoti Chakraborty smiles at me from...

Kruskal–Szekeres diagram, in which there are four different colored quadrants in a grid. Two opposite quadrants are shaped as hyperbolas.
By Cathy O'neil, Boston Review | 09.25.2017

Have you heard? Someday we will live in a perfect society ruled by an omnipotent artificial intelligence, provably and utterly...

A pipette is inserted into one test tube, among several, standing upright in a test tube rack.
By Ann Givens and Robert Lewis, The Trace | 09.25.2017

The city is ramping up its efforts to collect genetic material. But the absence of oversight alarms forensic and legal...

Forensic equipment, including crime scene tape, gloves, and evidence bag.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 09.25.2017

If you’ve ever watched a prime-time crime drama like CSI, you know that DNA evidence is often the linchpin that...

Four small pigs sleep side by side on top of a ground floor covered with hay.
By Kelly Servick, Science | 09.22.2017

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—Add your name to a waitlist for a kidney transplant in the United States today, and you’ll join...

Marcy Darnovsky speaks among  panel at CRISPRcon
By Michael Fernandez, George Washington University Food Institute [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

On August 16-17, at the University of California at Berkeley, more than 300 people gathered to explore science, society and...

Illustration of an 8-cell stage embryo
By Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian.com [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

A genetic tool allows researchers to disable a gene key to human development in a closely regulated experiment

For the...

An empty laboratory with tools such as microscopes
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.20.2017

For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about the earliest...