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

Our State's Eugenics Victims Deserve Better

By The Times News, The Times News | 09.01.2014

It’s hard to blame Elnora Mills for not feeling terribly grateful. Decades after being forcibly sterilized under the state eugenics...

Eugenics

Britain will be considered a 'rogue state' if it creates GM people, MP warns

By Press Association, Press Association | 09.01.2014

Britain risks being considered a "rogue state" if it pushes ahead with developing "genetically modified people", MPs were told.

Conservative...

Human Genetic Modification

US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data

By Richard Van Noorden, Nature News | 09.01.2014

Scientists who work on genomics and are funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) must post their data...

Bioethics

‘Can you clone that?’ Putin has close encounter with mammoth Dima in Russia’s Far East

By Russia Today, Russia Today | 09.01.2014

Upon meeting a 28,000-year-old mammoth mummy in a museum in the Russian Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin wondered if...

Genomics

Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic—And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back

By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 08.31.2014
People coming to the zoo to see the last passenger pigeon were disappointed by the bird, which barely budged off...
Genomics

Judge warns privacy of DNA at stake after ruling

By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun | 08.30.2014
As the state's highest court upheld this week a Harford County rape conviction based on DNA collected from the arm...
Genomics

Stem cell industry's 'huge development' in Bay Area

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.29.2014

Almost three years after a Bay Area company shut down the world's first clinical trial of a therapy using embryonic...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem cell therapy a primitive art

By Jill Margo, Financial Review | 08.27.2014
Stem cell therapy can be a rough art. That it has only been proven effective for some blood and immune...
Biotech & Pharma