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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 brown speckled pig in a bucket
By Jonathan Grinstein, Neo.Life | 05.19.2022

The real-life creation of human-animal hybrids, which is on the verge of going from hypothesis to reality, has been the...

Francis Collins
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 05.18.2022

WASHINGTON, DC — In his current role as President Biden’s acting scientific advisor, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, is dealing with...

a person administering a COVID test
By Joanna Thompson, Scientific American | 05.18.2022

Imagine taking a genetic test that could tell you your personal risk of developing complications and dying from a particular...

Dust jacket of the 1920 book The Rising Tide of Color
By Tanvi Misra, Harper's Bazaar | 05.18.2022

The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against
White World-Supremacy
 (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard

On rereading The Great Gatsby earlier...

Surgeon in blue scrubs reaching for surgical tools laid on a blue surface
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.17.2022

Transplant specialists, when evaluating kidneys that come from donors, try to work out how likely it is that the kidney...

a black woman
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.17.2022

In a Zoom call this spring with 19 leaders of A.M.E. Zion church congregations in North Carolina, Dr. Opeyemi Olabisi...

LGBTQ+ Pride Flag
By Shira Stein, Bloomberg Law | 05.17.2022

Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash

The Biden administration is considering a requirement that some health plans cover fertility treatment...

Blue outline of human brain against blue electric circuitboards
By Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review | 05.13.2022

It’s a Wild West out there for artificial intelligence. AI applications are increasingly used to make important decisions about humans’...