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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...

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By Alondra Nelson, Science | 01.15.2026

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in...

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By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience | 01.15.2026

Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30%...

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By Daphne O. Martschenko and Julia E. H. Brown, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 01.14.2026

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

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By Paula Siverino Bavio, BioNews | 01.12.2026

For more than ten years, gestational surrogacy in Uruguay existed in a state of legal latency: provided for by law...

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By George Janes, BioNews | 01.12.2026

A heart attack patient has become the first person to be treated in a clinical trial of an experimental gene...

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By Andrew Gregory, The Guardian | 01.11.2026

Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at...

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By Michael Rossi, The Los Angeles Review of Books | 01.11.2026

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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By Nick Paul Taylor, Fierce Biotech | 01.09.2026

Menlo Ventures has made a $16 million bet that the “baby KJ” custom CRISPR therapy success story is...