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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 Jonathan Moens, Undark | 12.14.2022

In October of this year, police officials in Edmonton, Canada were struggling to solve a 2019 sexual assault case in...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.13.2022

Katie Pope Kopp went through round after round of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat her non-Hodgkin lymphoma...

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By Jenni Quilter, Slate | 12.13.2022

Most people understand in-vitro fertilization to be privilege for the wealthy, the well-insured, or those living in a country with...

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By Metro Tech Reporter, Metro | 12.13.2022

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This is the world’s first artificial womb facility – and it lets you choose...

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By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.12.2022

The once-futuristic idea of sequencing every newborn child’s DNA to screen for genes that could shape their future health is...

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By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 12.11.2022

A teenager with aggressive leukaemia now has no detectable cancer cells after becoming the first person to receive a treatment...

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By Fyodor Urnov, The New York Times | 12.09.2022

The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation...

He Jiankui at his panel in 2018
By Peter McKnight, Vancouver Sun | 12.08.2022

When a scientist announces the opening of a new laboratory, it doesn’t ordinarily make news around the world. But Chinese...