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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 blond a pale skin sits in a diaper on the bed in a doctors office. A doctor with only his arm in frame puts a stethoscope to their back.
By Anna Merlan, Vice | 04.17.2023

For several years, parents of autistic children have paid between $10,000 and $15,000 to have their children undergo unproven stem...

A magnifying glass revealing the human genome from a DNA sequence
By Jane Clinton, Camden New Journal | 04.13.2023

The Cut + Paste exhibition is at The Crick

IF you had the chance to choose elements of yourself to...

stack of books
By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, ELSIhub | 04.12.2023

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Introduction

The development and use of an expanding range of medical technologies that yield...

macaque monkey
By Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 04.12.2023

In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first...

drawing of a strand of DNA with tweezers removing a section
By Colin Baker, Al Jazeera | 04.11.2023

Two clinics sit adjacent to one another in a new hospital in a medium-sized city in the developed world.

In...

A close up model of how CRISPR is able to work
By Jia Jie Chen, BioSpace | 04.10.2023

 

Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...

A zoomed in shot of a virus cell
By David Willman and Joby Warrrick, The Washington Post | 04.10.2023

BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...

A zoomed in picture demonstrating the process of IVF
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 04.08.2023

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...