News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

U.S. States

Morality, Religion and Experimenting on You

By Robert Klitzman, Huffington Post | 06.04.2015

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To help their soldiers on the front, Nazi physicians sawed off the limbs of concentration camp prisoners and...

Biopolitics

Rebooting the Human Genome

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.03.2015

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The Human Genome Project was one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. But the official gene map that resulted in...

Biotech & Pharma

Peruvian Women Haunted by Forced Sterilization Seek State Apology

By Anastasia Moloney, Reuters | 06.03.2015

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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole...

Human Rights

Brave New Genome

By Eric S. Lander, New England Journal of Medicine | 06.03.2015

Fifty years ago, microbiologists sparked the recombinant-DNA revolution with the discovery that bacteria have innate immune systems based on restriction...

Synthetic Biology