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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...

a sequence of DNA
By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech | 07.19.2023

For many people, when they hear China and genetic engineering in the same sentence, it is often synonymous with scandal...

Middlebury college
By Rachel Lu, The Nation | 07.19.2023

"[formerly] Mead Memorial Chapel at Middlebury College, Vermont" by Niranjan Arminius is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

In October...

a photo of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
By Molly Sprayregen, LGBTQ Nation | 07.17.2023

CPAC 2022 con Hermann Tertsch y Victor Gonzalez by Vox España licensed under CC 1.0

In conjunction with its crackdown...

baby baboon
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.17.2023

Photo by Andrew Liu on Unsplash

The baby baboon is wearing a mesh gown and appears to be sitting upright...

model of the brain in a lab
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 07.16.2023

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets...

DNA strand
By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.15.2023

Photo by Sangharsh Lohakare on Unsplash

On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San...

sickle cell red blood cells
By Jayasree K. Iyer, STAT | 07.12.2023

The treatment of sickle cell disease is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough, with makers of two gene-based treatments...

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By Farah Master, Reuters | 07.11.2023

China will "severely crack down" on illegal activities related to the use of assisted reproductive technologies such as the buying...