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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 Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.04.2021

Plans to sequence the whole genome of every newborn in the UK in order to spot those at heightened risk...

By Jordan Smith, The Intercept | 07.03.2021

William Thompson, a professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine, lives in University Hills...

By Claudia López Lloreda , STAT | 07.01.2021

As more people turn to in vitro fertilization for help with conceiving, a host of companies is capitalizing on the...

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By Nicole Wetsman, The Verge | 06.30.2021

The World Health Organization released a guidance document outlining six key principles for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in...

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By Sabrina Imbler, New York Times | 06.29.2021

When Krystal Tsosie introduces her genomics students to the concept of biocommercialism — the extraction of biological resources from Indigenous...

By Derek Lowe, Science Magazine | 06.29.2021

The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform during the pandemic has set a lot of people to thinking about...

By Sylvie Corbet, AP | 06.29.2021

PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday definitively adopted a law that will allow single women and...

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By Jennifer Tsai, Slate | 06.27.2021

Jordan Crowley was born with only one shrunken kidney to clean his blood. As he gets older, his one kidney...