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

Broad Institute Gets Patent on Revolutionary Gene-Editing Method

By Susan Young Rojahn, MIT Technology Review | 04.16.2014
One of the most important genetic technologies developed in recent years is now patented, and researchers are wondering what they...
Patents & Other IP

U.S. health groups worried genetic test could displace Pap smear

By Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press | 04.15.2014
WASHINGTON -- A high-tech screening tool for cervical cancer is facing pushback from more than a dozen patient groups, who...
Genomics

How I Hacked My Best Friend’s Genome — And Could Hack Yours Too

By Sharon Moalem, Medium | 04.15.2014
I was recently on a flight back to New York from London and was sitting one row away from Daniel...
Bioethics

The Baby Makers: Critics Push for Regulation of India's Booming Surrogacy Industry

By ABC, ABC | 04.15.2014

As more than 800 million Indians go to the polls this month, the main political party candidates are being urged...

Assisted Reproduction

Conceiving Identities

By Matt McCall, The Columbia Chronicle | 04.14.2014
When I was 7 years old, my father told me I was conceived through an anonymous sperm donation.

As he...
Biopolitics

Guarantee Privacy to Ensure Proper Treatment

By Jeremy Gruber, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 04.14.2014
It’s now over a dozen years since the mapping of the human genome was completed, and the pace of discovery...
Genomics

You Can't Clone Dogs Without Lots of Suffering - Why Scientist who Created World First 'Frankenstein Pet' has Quit

By Christopher Bucktin, Mirror | 04.12.2014
As she plays in the San Francisco surf, Lou Hawthorne’s mongrel dog Mira looks just likes any other.

Part Husky...
Bioethics

Human Rights Body Warns Over Mass DNA Screening

By Elaine Edwards, The Irish Times | 04.11.2014
A Government proposal which would allow the taking of DNA samples for “mass screening” of certain “classes”of individuals should be...
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