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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...

Science article on eugenics 1921
By Adam Rutherford, Science | 09.24.2021

A century ago this week, 300 scientists, policy-makers, and campaigners gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New...

Cover of "The Genetic Lottery" by Kathryn Page Harden
By Aaron Panofsky, Science | 09.24.2021

Behavior genetics, its forbear eugenics, and its cousins sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have always been political sciences. When not being...

photo of Elizabeth Holmes
By Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business | 09.23.2021

Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch

A longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the...

Arched gothic entrance to Royal Court of Justice in London
By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press | 09.23.2021

A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government Thursday over a law allowing the abortion...

Lab grown meat in a petri dish
By Joe Fassler, The Counter | 09.22.2021

Paul Wood didn’t buy it.

For years, the former pharmaceutical industry executive watched from the sidelines as biotech startups raked...

a DNA helix on a dollar bill
By Kevin Doxzen and Diana M. Bowman, Slate | 09.22.2021

Over the past decade, our ability to alter the human genome has rapidly improved, largely due to advancements in genome...

A neon sign showing the outline of a brain within a head in profile
By Tana Wojczuk, Slate | 09.21.2021

In the final chapter of her 1995 memoir of manic-depression, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison posed a question...

Office building with 23andMe logo
By Kara Swisher, The New York Times | 09.20.2021

Anne Wojcicki is sitting on a treasure trove of genetic data. Wojcicki, a co-founder and the chief executive of the...