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

"MC0_8230" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by 2.0 

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

U.S. States

Illegal abortion of female foetuses by some ethnic groups who favour sons has reduced female population

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.15.2014

Sex selection abortions are taking place in some ethnic communities in Britain and the practice is so widespread it has...

Genetic Selection

Cloning comeback

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 01.14.2014

The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation nestles on a wooded hillside in Guro, a district on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul...

Stem Cells

China cloning on an 'industrial scale'

By David Shukman, BBC News | 01.13.2014
You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in rolling hills in...
Animal Biotechnologies

The Case for De-Extinction: Why We Should Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

By Stewart Brand, e360 | 01.13.2014
Sequenceable DNA can be recovered from museum specimens and some fossils of extinct species. That discovery in the 1980s set...
Animal Biotechnologies

The Case Against De-Extinction: It’s a Fascinating but Dumb Idea

By Paul R. Ehrlich, e360 | 01.13.2014
Wouldn’t it be great to have vast herds of mammoths roaming the Canadian tundra, or a thrill to see flocks...
Animal Biotechnologies

Testing times for the consumer genetics revolution

By Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 01.13.2014

IT'S 2008. The New Yorker is chronicling a celebrity "spit party", at which notables – nicknamed the "Spitterati" – eject...

Genomics

Aiming to Push Genomics Forward in New Study

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.13.2014
Here comes genomics, Take 2.

Pharmaceutical companies invested heavily in genetic studies in the frenzy after the sequencing of the...
Biotech & Pharma

After 23andMe, Another Personal Genetics Firm Is Charged with False Advertising

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 01.11.2014

It sounded like a miracle of science and convenience: swab your cheek and drop the saliva sample in the mailbox...

Genomics