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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...

By Priyanka A. Chokhani, The Times of India | 09.02.2021

NEW DELHI: When the pandemic shut down their auto-parts supply business in Maharashtra last year, Sheetal pawned her gold jewellery...

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.02.2021

India has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the...

Kazuto Kato
By Gary Humphreys, Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 09.01.2021

Photo from Kazuto Kato’s biography at
University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law

Gary Humphreys talks to Kazuto Kato about the...

Cover of The Code Breaker
By Jag Bhalla, Issues in Science and Technology | 09.01.2021

To say that scientists now understand life’s “code” is a stretch. So, from the very title of Walter Isaacson’s latest...

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By Ashleen Knutsen, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 09.01.2021

Therapeutic applications of genome editing were envisioned at least as early as the mid-1990s, when the first sequence-specific genome editing...

By Kendall Powell, Nature | 08.31.2021

It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he had an agonizing task ahead...

By Kevin Doxzen, The Conversation | 08.31.2021

Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay...

Newspaper ad for a clinic
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.31.2021

The California stem cell agency has posted a bit of a roundup on the state of regulatory affairs concerning what...