The proposal to legalize surrogacy in New York was presented as an unequivocal progressive ideal, a remedy to a ban...
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Technologies
If you follow news about human germline editing — altering the genes and traits of future generations — you’re likely...
On July 15, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for...
Editors note: This article was originally published on impactethics.ca and is reposted here with generous permission from Impact Ethics.
In...
Canadian bioethicists and genetics experts are speaking out against Denis Rebrikov, the Russian molecular biologist who plans — in defiance...
Policies
The Child-Parent Security Act, which would have legalized commercial surrogacy in New York, did not make it out of...
Editors note: This article was originally published on ourbodiesourselves.org and is reposted here with generous permission from Our Bodies Our...
Someone broke into a church in Centerville, Utah, last November and attacked the organist who was practicing there. In March,...
The journal Nature reported yesterday that a scientist in Russia claims he will attempt to produce gene-edited babies using CRISPR...
Society
Last week, drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced its five-year $67 million partnership with UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and UC San...
Someone broke into a church in Centerville, Utah, last November and attacked the organist who was practicing there. In March,...
A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these...
Perspectives
I hope it’s not too late to review Bill McKibben’s important new book Falter, just as I join him...
Today, CGS officially relaunched a project called Surrogacy360.
It’s an important resource for several reasons. The website helps users...
At the turn of the 20th century, U.S. scientists proposed the control of reproduction to advance society based on the...
In 2011, poet and writer George Estreich wrote about the impact of biotechnology on family life in his first book, ...